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  2. Khorugv - Wikipedia

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    Red banner embroidered with an icon of a saint (Church of St. Gabriel, Nazareth).. Khorugv (Russian: хоругвь, Bulgarian: хоругва, Church Slavonic: хорѫгꙑ, Ukrainian: хоругва, Polish: chorągiew, Romanian: prapur, Finnish: kirkkolippu, sometimes translated as gonfalon) [1] is a religious banner used liturgically in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches.

  3. Gonfalone of the Church - Wikipedia

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    Such banners were also present in the Crusades and at the battle of Lepanto. [1] Custody of the Vexillum of the Holy Roman Church was entrusted to a high-ranking figure, who assumed the title of Gonfaloniere or Vessillifero di Santa Romana Chiesa (Gonfalonier of the Holy Roman Church). It was the highest role the pope could grant to a layman ...

  4. Vexillum - Wikipedia

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    The word vexillum is a derivative of the Latin word, velum, meaning a sail, which confirms the historical evidence (from coins and sculpture) that vexilla were literally "little sails": flag-like standards. In the vexillum, the cloth was draped from a horizontal crossbar suspended from a staff. That is unlike most modern flags in which the ...

  5. Gonfalon - Wikipedia

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    Gonfalon with coat of arms of the Italian comune of Montebuono.. The gonfalon, gonfanon, gonfalone (from the early Italian confalone) is a type of heraldic flag or banner, often pointed, swallow-tailed, or with several streamers, and suspended from a crossbar in an identical manner to the ancient Roman vexillum.

  6. Banner - Wikipedia

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    Banner-making is an ancient craft. Church banners commonly portray the saint to whom the church is dedicated. The word derives from Old French baniere (modern French: bannière), from Late Latin bandum, which was borrowed from a Germanic source (compare Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐌰, romanized: bandwa).

  7. Heraldic flag - Wikipedia

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    Banners of Knights of the Thistle displayed in St. Giles' Cathedral. In heraldry and vexillology, a heraldic flag is a flag containing coats of arms, heraldic badges, or other devices used for personal identification. Heraldic flags include banners, standards, pennons and their variants, gonfalons, guidons, and pinsels. Specifications governing ...

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