enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Khorugv - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khorugv

   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. Labarum - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labarum

   The term "labarum" can be generally applied to any ecclesiastical banner, such as those carried in religious processions. "The Holy Lavaro" were a set of early national Greek flags, blessed by the Greek Orthodox Church. Under these banners the Greeks united throughout the Greek Revolution (1821), a war of liberation waged against the Ottoman ...

4. History of Christian flags - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Christian_flags

   The Church in Wales uses a blue Cross defaced with a gold Celtic Cross. The Church of Ireland uses the St Patrick's Saltire but also uses the Compass-rose Flag of the Anglican Communion equally. The Protestant Church in Germany, a federation of Lutheran, Reformed and United Protestant churches, has a flag with a violet Latin cross.

5. Banner - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner

   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).

6. Oriflamme - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriflamme

   The Oriflamme was first used in 1124 by Louis VI of France, [6] but a version of it remained in the Abbey of St. Denis until the 18th century. [7]Louis VI replaced the earlier banner of Saint Martin with the oriflamme of the Abbey of St. Denis, which floated about the tomb of St. Denis and was said to have been given to the abbey by Dagobert I, King of the Franks.

7. List of flags of the Papacy - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flags_of_the_Papacy

   Banner of Pope Boniface VIII: 1510s: Banner of Pope Leo X: 1520s: 1520s: Flag used by papal military strategist Jacopo Pesaro: 1540s: Banner of Pope Paul III: 1669–1771: Flag for Papal Ships: Flag with Christ on the cross, St Peter and St Paul. -1808 [5] [6] Papal cockade until 1808, de facto state flag [7] Yellow and Red plain bicolour 1808 ...