Deconsecration Head of Aphrodite, 1st century AD copy of an original by Praxiteles. The cross on the chin and forehead was intended to "deconsecrate" Deconsecration, also called secularization, is the act of removing a religious blessing from something that had been previously consecrated by a minister or priest of that religion. The practice is usually performed on churches or synagogues to be rendered to non-religious (secular) use or demolished. Temple B’Nai Israel to conduct last service in synagogue Sunday, By KATE DAY SAGER Olean Times Herald Dec 9, 2020 a Holy pagan artifact. Found in the Agora of Athens. National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Deconsecration can also refer to the part of the process of converting a pagan temple to a church. Christian Conversion: The Spiritual Transformation of Eastern Pagan, Structures in Late Antiquity, Alexandra Fallone, 2013From Paganism to Christianity in the Temples of Athens, Alison Frantz, Dumbarton Oaks Papers Vol. 19 (1965), pp. 185+187-205 The process involves removal of the pagan statues or rendering them unsuitable for pagan worship, possibly a period when the building is used as a place of worship without any alteration and finally architectural modifications. At the turn of the century St Augustine gave a sermon to his congregation in Carthage on removing all tangible symbols of paganism:St. Augustine, Sermon 26 from The Works of Saint Augustine, Part III; Sermons 20 to 51, New City Press, 1990, (Weblink: URL (PDF)) Am I saying "Stop wanting what you want"? On the contrary, we must be thankful that you want what God wants. That every superstition of the pagans and the Gentiles should be abolished is what God wants, God has ordered, God has foretold, God has begun to bring about, and in many parts of the world has already in great measure achieved. Red Terror in Spain 300px| "Execution" of the Sacred Heart by leftist militiamen at Cerro de los Ángeles near Madrid, on 7 August 1936, was the most famous of the widespread desecration of images and Churches.Ealham, Chris and Michael Richards, The Splintering of Spain, p. 80, 168, Cambridge University Press, 2005, , King Alfonso XIII had consecrated the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the spot on May 30, 1919.Burns, Paul and Alban Butler, Lives of the Saints: Supplement of New Saints and Blesseds 2005 Liturgical Press The photograph was taken by a Paramount newsreel representative and originally published in the London Daily Mail with a caption calling it part of the "Spanish Reds' war on religion."Shots of War: Photojournalism During the Spanish Civil War The Red Terror in Spain during the Spanish Civil War involved massive desecration of churches, synagogues and other sacred objects and places by leftists. On the night of July 19, 1936 alone, 50 churches were burned. In Barcelona, out of the 58 churches, only the cathedral was spared, and similar events occurred almost everywhere in Republican Spain. All the Catholic churches in the Republican zone were closed, but the attacks were not limited to Catholic churches, as synagogues were also pillaged and closed, but some small Protestant churches were spared.Payne p. 215 Bosnia and Herzegovina The ethnic cleansing campaign that took place throughout areas controlled by the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS) targeted Bosnian Muslims, and included the destruction of Muslim places of worship.ICTY; "Karadzic indictment. Paragraph URL 250px| The consecration of Saint Genevieve, 1821 (Ste. Genevieve, Missouri). Consecrated virgins are consecrated by the diocesan bishop according to the approved liturgical rite and spend their time in works of penance and mercy, in apostolic activity and in prayer. A 2002 Anglican publishing house book states that "there is no explicit teaching on sanctification in the Anglican formularies".Owen C. Thomas, Ellen K. Wondra, Introduction to Theology, 3rd ed (Church Publishing, 2002), 222. A glossary of the Episcopal Church (USA) gives some teaching: "Anglican formularies have tended to speak of sanctification as the process of God's work within us by means of which we grow into the fullness of the redeemed life."Don S. Armentrout and Robert Boak Slocum, eds, An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church (Church Publishing, 2000), s. v. "Sanctification", 467. Online at URL Outside official formularies sanctification has been an issue in the Anglican Communion since its inception. The 16th century Anglican theologian Richard Hooker (1554-1600) distinguished between the "righteousness of justification" that is imputed by God and the "righteousness of sanctification" that comprises the works one does as an "inevitable" result of being justified.Gibbs, Lee W. "Richard Hooker's Via Media Doctrine of Justification" in The Harvard Theological Review 74, no. 2 (1981): 211-220. URL (accessed June 10, 2010) . A 19th century Church of England work agreed with Jeremy Taylor that justification and sanctification are "inseparable". However, they are not the same thing. Justification is "found in Christ’s work alone". "Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us, and is a progressive work."An Explanation of the Articles of the Church of England, Part 1 (Church of England, 1843), 53. Online at URL
Deconsecration Head of Aphrodite, 1st century AD copy of an original by Praxiteles. The cross on the chin and forehead was intended to "deconsecrate" Deconsecration, also called secularization, is the act of removing a religious blessing from something that had been previously consecrated by a minister or priest of that religion. The practice is usually performed on churches or synagogues to be rendered to non-religious (secular) use or demolished. Temple B’Nai Israel to conduct last service in synagogue Sunday, By KATE DAY SAGER Olean Times Herald Dec 9, 2020 a Holy pagan artifact. Found in the Agora of Athens. National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Deconsecration can also refer to the part of the process of converting a pagan temple to a church. Christian Conversion: The Spiritual Transformation of Eastern Pagan, Structures in Late Antiquity, Alexandra Fallone, 2013From Paganism to Christianity in the Temples of Athens, Alison Frantz, Dumbarton Oaks Papers Vol. 19 (1965), pp. 185+187-205 The process involves removal of the pagan statues or rendering them unsuitable for pagan worship, possibly a period when the building is used as a place of worship without any alteration and finally architectural modifications. At the turn of the century St Augustine gave a sermon to his congregation in Carthage on removing all tangible symbols of paganism:St. Augustine, Sermon 26 from The Works of Saint Augustine, Part III; Sermons 20 to 51, New City Press, 1990, URL Am I saying "Stop wanting what you want"? On the contrary, we must be thankful that you want what God wants. That every superstition of the pagans and the Gentiles should be abolished is what God wants, God has ordered, God has foretold, God has begun to bring about, and in many parts of the world has already in great measure achieved. Red Terror in Spain "Execution" of the Sacred Heart by leftist militiamen at Cerro de los Ángeles near Madrid, on 7 August 1936, was the most famous of the widespread desecration of images and Churches.Ealham, Chris and Michael Richards, The Splintering of Spain, p. 80, 168, Cambridge University Press, 2005, , King Alfonso XIII had consecrated the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the spot on May 30, 1919.Burns, Paul and Alban Butler, Lives of the Saints: Supplement of New Saints and Blesseds 2005 Liturgical Press The photograph was taken by a Paramount newsreel representative and originally published in the London Daily Mail with a caption calling it part of the "Spanish Reds' war on religion."Shots of War: Photojournalism During the Spanish Civil War The Red Terror in Spain during the Spanish Civil War involved massive desecration of churches, synagogues and other sacred objects and places by leftists. On the night of July 19, 1936 alone, 50 churches were burned. In Barcelona, out of the 58 churches, only the cathedral was spared, and similar events occurred almost everywhere in Republican Spain. All the Catholic churches in the Republican zone were closed, but the attacks were not limited to Catholic churches, as synagogues were also pillaged and closed, but some small Protestant churches were spared.Payne p. 215 Bosnia and Herzegovina The ethnic cleansing campaign that took place throughout areas controlled by the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS) targeted Bosnian Muslims, and included the destruction of Muslim places of worship.ICTY; "Karadzic indictment. Paragraph 19 The consecration of Saint Genevieve, 1821 (Ste. Genevieve, Missouri). Consecrated virgins are consecrated by the diocesan bishop according to the approved liturgical rite and spend their time in works of penance and mercy, in apostolic activity and in prayer. A 2002 Anglican publishing house book states that "there is no explicit teaching on sanctification in the Anglican formularies".Owen C. Thomas, Ellen K. Wondra, Introduction to Theology, 3rd ed (Church Publishing, 2002), 222. A glossary of the Episcopal Church (USA) gives some teaching: "Anglican formularies have tended to speak of sanctification as the process of God's work within us by means of which we grow into the fullness of the redeemed life."Don S. Armentrout and Robert Boak Slocum, eds, An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church (Church Publishing, 2000), s. v. "Sanctification", 467. Outside official formularies sanctification has been an issue in the Anglican Communion since its inception. The 16th century Anglican theologian Richard Hooker (1554-1600) distinguished between the "righteousness of justification" that is imputed by God and the "righteousness of sanctification" that comprises the works one does as an "inevitable" result of being justified.Gibbs, Lee W. "Richard Hooker's Via Media Doctrine of Justification" in The Harvard Theological Review 74, no. 2 (1981): 211-220. (accessed June 10, 2010) A 19th century Church of England work agreed with Jeremy Taylor that justification and sanctification are "inseparable". However, they are not the same thing. Justification is "found in Christ’s work alone". "Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us, and is a progressive work."An Explanation of the Articles of the Church of England, Part 1 (Church of England, 1843), 53. 
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