[…] It is only within the true Church that anti-liturgical heresy can ferment, that is to say that heresy which presents itself as an enemy of the forms of worship. Only where there is something to destroy will the genius of destruction try to introduce this deleterious poison. The East has only tried it once, but violently, the shots, and this happened at the time of unity. In the eighth century a furious sect arose which, under the pretext of freeing the spirit from the yoke of form, broke, torn, burned the symbols of Christian faith and love. Blood was shed for the defense of the image of the Son of God as it had been shed four centuries earlier for the triumph of the true God over idols. But it was reserved for Western Christianity to see the longest war organized within its midst, more stubborn, which still continues, against all liturgical acts. Two things contribute to keeping the churches of the West in this state of trial: first of all, as has been said, the vitality of Roman Christianity, the only one worthy of the name of Christianity, and consequently the one against which all the forces of error had to turn. Secondly, the rationally material character of Western peoples, which, devoid of the agility of the Greek spirit as well as of Eastern mysticism, in terms of beliefs, they don't know what to deny, rather than rejecting what disturbs or humiliates them, incapable for this twofold reason, of following the same heresy like the Semitic peoples for long centuries. Here's the reason why you come to us, if certain isolated facts are overlooked, heresy has never proceeded except through denial and destruction. In this direction, as we will now see, all the efforts of the immense anti-liturgist sect must be made.

Its known starting point is Vigilanzio, this rooster immortalized by the eloquent sarcasms of Saint Jerome [It was reported to Saint Jerome in the year 404 by the priest as the new heretic of Aquitaine, who in a writing had attacked the cult of saints and relics. Two years later Girolamo, after receiving the works, composed to refute it Against the Watchers of the French priests]. He declaims against the pomp of ceremonies, grossly insults their symbolism, blasphemes the relics of the saints, attacks at the same time the celibacy of sacred ministers and the chastity of virgins. All to preserve the purity of Christianity. As we can see, this is not a bad anticipation in a 4th century Gaul. The East which in this area has only produced iconoclastic heresy, he saved, even if due to lack of consequentiality, the rites and uses of the liturgy without an immediate relationship with the sacred images.