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The white rose symbolises innocence and faithfulness, the red rose stands for love and passion [3] [6] Snowdrop: Virgin Mary: Symbolises hope, purity and virtue Strawberry: Virgin Mary: Symbolises righteousness and humility. Their flowers embody chastity, but they also became a symbol of transience and vanity.
Crocus flavus, known as yellow crocus, [3] Dutch yellow crocus or snow crocus, [4] is a species of flowering plant in the genus Crocus of the family Iridaceae. It grows wild on the slopes of Greece , former Yugoslavia , Bulgaria , Romania and northwestern Turkey , [ 1 ] with fragrant bright orange-yellow flowers.
Luther's Seal from a church in Cobstädt, Thuringia, Germany In an 8 July 1530 letter to Lazarus Spengler, Luther interprets his seal: . Grace and peace from the Lord. As you desire to know whether my painted seal, which you sent to me, has hit the mark, I shall answer most amiably and tell you my original thoughts and reason about why my seal is a symbol of my theology.
The red rose, which is the favourite flower of French people, is associated with passion and love in the language of flowers. [60] Bonnet's design of the flower and its leaves pointing left and right can also remind of a Christian cross. An ambiguous element of the symbolism is that clenching a rose may be bloody, since the flower has thorns. [52]
Iris pseudacorus, the yellow flag, yellow iris, or water flag, is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae. It is native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa. Its specific epithet pseudacorus means "false acorus", referring to the similarity of its leaves to those of Acorus calamus (sweet flag), as they have a prominently ...
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The flag is a vertical bicolour of yellow and white, with the white half charged with the emblem of the Holy See (a papal tiara and the crossed keys of Saint Peter). It was modeled after the 1808 flag of the Papal States, a yellow-and-white bicolour defaced with the tiara and keys in the centre.