Tattooing banished

The banning of tattooing marks.

In A.D.325 Emperor Constantine the Great, banned facial tattoos among Christian’s living in the Roman Empire. As it disfigured what was fashioned in God’s image. And in 787AD the British council of churches at Calcuth, Northumberland – under the direction of the second council of Nicaea (the Seventh Ecumenical Council of Christianity) – banned all body markings as a pagan practice. Tattooing was known as pricking before Captain Cooks adventures to the South Seas.

Copyright…Paul Sayce. Posted on 15th April 2009