Moses was instructed by GOD to make a brass snake and place it on a pole, and the Promise from GOD was that any who looked upon the snake on the pole would be healed of snake bite. ... And the Israelites made an idol out the snake and kept statues of it in their homes, until God had HIS man sweep away the idolatry and destroy the little ‘icons of their worship’. You see, the Israelites would pray to the little snake statues for healing of sickness, etc. Mariology anyone?
IOW, idolatrous relics fail the test of the first commandment....
Thank you, MHGinTN