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USVA headstone emblem 64. The "Maltese Cross" was used by ancient Celts on grave slabs in Spain as early as A.D. 510. [15] The Huguenot cross, a symbol of French Protestants, is an eight-pointed cross with a dove. The United Protestant Church of France used an emblem that combined a stylized Latin cross and a Maltese cross.
However, Malta had three colonial badges between 1875 and 1964. The first (1875 – c. 1898) showed a white Maltese cross on a white and red panel, the second (c. 1898 – 1943) showed a white and red shield (like the arms of Mdina), and the third (1943–1964) was like the 1898 arms, but with a George Cross on a blue canton on the white half ...
Each corner of the red square shall contain a white Maltese Cross. Ratio: 1:1. c.1973—Present: Commander of the Armed Forces' Pennant: A red triangular pennant with golden emblem of the Armed Forces. The emblem is a mason tower of de Redin, which represents fortification and Malta defences back to the time of the knights of St. John.
Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 600 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 240 × 240 pixels | 480 × 480 pixels ... Heraldic Maltese Cross: Width: 600: Height: 600
A red field with the white Latin cross extending to the edges of the flag: Flag of the Order's Works: Design: A red field with a white Maltese cross in the center: Grand Master's flag: Design: Red with a white Maltese cross surrounded by the collar of the order and surmounted by a crown
Flags with crosses are recorded from the later Middle Ages, e.g. in the early 14th century the insignia cruxata comunis of the city of Genoa, the red-on-white cross that would later become known as St George's Cross, and the white-on-red cross of the Reichssturmfahne used as the war flag of the Holy Roman Emperor possibly from the early 13th ...
The Merchant Flag of Malta, the civil ensign, was introduced by the Merchant Shipping Act of 1964 and consists of a red field bordered in white, with a white Maltese Cross at its centre. This flag is flown by Maltese civilian vessels as their ensign. Maltese military vessels fly the National Flag.