In the book The Age of Faith, historian Will Durant describes how this came about, saying: “As the number of worshiped saints multiplied, a need arose for identifying and remembering them; pictures of them and of Mary were produced in great number; and in the case of Christ not only His imagined form but His cross became objects of reverence ​ — even, for simple minds, magic talismans.
इसका नतीजा यह हुआ कि “मसीही शिल्पकारों ने [अलग - अलग धर्मों की शिक्षाओं को कबूल करने का] तरीका अपनाया और झूठे धर्मों के चिन्हों को इस्तेमाल करना शुरू किया ।