Canon 7 No church consecrated without holy relics

Paul the divine Apostle said: The sins of some men are manifest beforehand, and for some they also follow after. When sins, then, have gone before, other sins also follow them. So upon the impious heresy of the accusers of Christians other impieties also followed. For just as they took away from the Church the sight of the venerable icons, so they have also abandoned certain other customs, which must be renewed and so be held according to the written and unwritten legislation. As many venerable churches, then, as have been consecrated without holy relics of martyrs, we decree that in them a deposition of relics be made with the customary prayer. And he who consecrates a church without holy relics, let him be deposed, as having transgressed the ecclesiastical traditions.