This flag is flown or displayed worldwide in Roman Catholic churches and
institutions, usually alongside the national flag of where the church or
institution is located.
The Papal States traditionally used a yellow and red cockade, the
traditional colors of the Roman Senate and the Roman people. However,
these colors were not used on flags. In 1808 Pope Pius VII ordered the Vatican's Noble Guard
and other troops to replace red color with white, in order to
distinguish them from the troops that had been incorporated into
Napoleon's army. In 1803 the Papal States started using a white merchant flag with the
Papal coat of arms in the center. This flag was made official on 7 June
1815. On 17 September 1825 it was replaced with a yellow and white flag
which took its colors from the materials of the key (yellow for gold,
white for silver). These colors were probably taken from the 1808 flag of the palatine guard. This was the first bi-color used by the Papal States and the ancestor of the modern flag of Vatican City. The merchant flag also served as a state flag on land.
Starting in 1831, the papal infantry flew square yellow and white
flags. At first they were diagonally divided, but after 1849 they were
vertically divided like the merchant flag. The last infantry color,
adopted in 1862, was a plain square white and yellow flag. On 8 February 1849, while Pope Pius IX was in exile in Gaeta, a Roman Republic was declared. The new government's flag was the Italian tricolor
with the motto "Dio e Popolo" on the central stripe. The papal
government and its flags were restored on 2 July 1849. On 20 September
1870 the Papal States were conquered by Italy and the yellow and white
flags fell out of official use.
After the Lateran Treaty
was signed in 1929, papal authorities decided to use the 1825 merchant
flag as the state flag of the soon to be independent Vatican City state.
However, the official drawing in the constitution used a drawing of the
square 1862 infantry flag as a template. The treaty came into effect on
7 June 1929, and with it the newly-square Vatican flag. Read more about this flag. . .
All flag animations are made by the staff at our blog and are created with graphics attributed to the public domain at both Wikipedia and by some visitors that have requested that flag animations be made for their own Denominations or church groups.
To read about how we make the flags go the the index page. To request animated flags for your own church:
All flag animations are made by the staff at our blog and are created with graphics attributed to the public domain at both Wikipedia and by some visitors that have requested that flag animations be made for their own Denominations or church groups.
To read about how we make the flags go the the index page. To request animated flags for your own church:
- Visit your churches denominational pages to request that they contact our gallery staff via email to make inquiries about including their own versions on our web pages. Many logos are copyrighted and are only free to use under special permissions. So if you do not see your Denomination's flag represented here, it may be because it has not been filed at Wikipedia under "fair use" or tagged as public domain.
- If your flag design is for a church youth group or a missions organization we will make the animation for you. However, if we make it, it will be included on this blog for others to download.
- There are no fees for the making of flag animations.
- You may contact Kathy Grimm at pickandprintgallery@yahoo.com and she will pass on the information.
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