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  2. Papal regalia and insignia - Wikipedia

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    The silver key symbolises the power to bind and loose on Earth, and the gold key the power to bind and loose in Heaven (another interpretation says that the silver key represents "binding" and the golden key represents "loosing"). The primary emblem of the papacy is these two keys beneath a triregnum (papal tiara). This symbol is used in ...

  3. List of flags of the Papacy - Wikipedia

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    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 1808-1870 [8] Pilot flag, Infantry colours ...

  4. Coat of arms of the Holy See - Wikipedia

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    The earliest blazoning of the arms of the Holy See is that found in Froissart's Chronicles of 1353, which describes them as "gules two keys in saltire argent". [11] From the beginning of the 14th century, the arms of the Holy See had shown this arrangement of two crossed keys, most often with a gold key in bend and a silver in bend sinister, but sometimes with both keys or (gold), less often ...

  5. Flag of Vatican City - Wikipedia

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    The national flag of Vatican City was adopted in 1929, the year Pope Pius XI signed the Lateran Treaty with Italy, creating the new independent state of Vatican City. The flag is a vertical bicolour of yellow and white, with the white half charged with the coat of arms of Vatican City (a papal tiara and the crossed keys of Saint Peter).

  6. Keys of Heaven - Wikipedia

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    The keys of heaven or keys of Saint Peter are seen as a symbol of papal authority and are seen on papal coats of arms (those of individual popes) and those of the Holy See and Vatican City State: "Behold he [Peter] received the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the power of binding and loosing is committed to him, the care of the whole Church and ...

  7. Ecclesiastical heraldry - Wikipedia

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    Rendition of Pope Pius IX's coat of arms displays tiara, keys and supporters holding papal crosses. Saint Peter was represented holding keys as early as the fifth century. As the Roman Catholic Church considers him the first pope and bishop of Rome, the keys were adopted as a papal emblem; they first appear with papal arms in the 13th century. [15]

  8. Coat of arms of Vatican City - Wikipedia

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    Adopted: 7 June 1929: Shield: The Fundamental Law of Vatican City State describes the shield as chiavi decussate sormontate del Triregno in campo rosso (keys in saltire surmounted by the papal tiara on a red field) and depicts the keys as two, one silver in bend and one gold in bend sinister, interlaced at their intersection with a red cord.

  9. History of Key West - Wikipedia

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    Following Spain's secession of Florida to the United States in 1819, the first permanent colonization of Key West began with American possession in 1821. [6] Legal claim of the island occurred with the purchase by businessman, John W. Simonton, in 1822, in which federal property was asserted only three months later with the arrival of U.S. Navy Lieutenant Mathew C. Perry.