Our country's flag and the flags of foreign countries (1898)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and company · leaf 102
Christian ban-ner in Europe. Itrepresented a newidea. The tempo-ral and earthlypower of the Em-peror was thenopenly acknowl-edged to be de-rived from the spiritual power of Christ. In all Catholiccountries to this day the flags of an army areblessed by the priests, and flags captured fromthe enemy… … * The first two letters of XPI2TO2 (Christos). 72 THE FLAGS OF FOREIGN NATIONS. 630), in France; the three banners of St.Peter, St. John of Beverley, St. Wilfred ofKipon, in England (a. d. 1264), and so forth.We shall hear more about these religiousbanners when we read the history of theflags of…
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