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THE CARNATION The pink carnation became the symbol of a mother's undying love
The carnation,
was also known as a “Pink”, or "Jove's Flower." The Romans used this
flower in their tribute to a beloved god. Symbol of admiration; hope and
joy. According to a Flemish custom, a variety of carnation, the pink,
was worn by the bride upon the day of her wedding, and the groom was
supposed to search her and find it.
The carnation often appears in paintings of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, in which Mary holds a carnation out to Jesus, as in the painting by Raphael, "Madonna of the Pinks," or the painting "Madonna of the Carnation" by Albrecht Durer (1516).
The pink carnation became the symbol of a mother's undying love. In Christian legend, the pink carnation flower grew where the tears of the Virgin Mary fell at the site of Jesus’ crucifixion.
The carnation flower is also the international botanical symbol of Spain and the state flower of Ohio __________________ |
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A five-leafed flower signifying hope and joy. In French civic heraldry, the cinquefoil is sometimes used to represent the plant, narcissus, commonly called the cinquefoil. In Scottish heraldry this symbol is called a fraise. Cinquefoils were held by the ancient heralds to represent various flowers according to the colours in which they were borne. |
THE CAMEL A Camel was a sign of wealth in the ancient world..
Highly valued in Middle Eastern cultures and represents stamina, obedience, and temperance. It is a classical symbol of Arabia where it is regarded as ennobled by God. Prized by the Bedouin desert nomads, it was used as a beast of burden, for riding, and as a draught animal. "Kaswa, Al" was the name of Muhammad's favourite Camel. It fell on its knees when the prophet delivered the last clause of the Koran to the assembled multitude at Mecca.
In ancient Persian texts and in the Zohar, the serpent in the Garden of Eden is said to have been a flying a dragon-camel; such Camels are also thought to be Eden's guards.
A Camel was a sign of wealth in the ancient world; their rich trappings, even during the Renaissance, were used to indicate royalty and prosperity. The three wise men are usually shown riding Camels to Bethlehem where the beasts knelt to worship the Christ Child; according to legend, the wise men's Camels journeyed to Bethlehem without food, water, or rest in order to reach the Child in only twelve or thirteen days. ----------------------- |
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CATHERINE WHEEL Said to have been used in the martyrdom of St. Catherine, under the Emperor Maximinus, and therefore it is the emblem of one who is prepared to undergo great trials for the Christian faith. It is a universal symbol of martyrdom. Catherine, the Virgin and martyr, was born according to her legend at Alexandria, and of so wonderful a capacity, that having soon after her conversion to Christianity, in 305, disputed with fifty heathen philosophers, she not only vanquished them by the strength of her reasoning, but in the end painted to them the divine truths of the Gospel in such glowing colours, that she converted them all to the true faith. For this offence, so heinous in the eyes of the Emperor, that tyrant caused her instantly to be cast into prison, where the Empress and one of the principal generals, who visited her out of curiosity, were likewise converted by the irresistible power of her eloquence and learning; which was deemed so great an aggravation of her crime, that the Emperor not only condemned the Virgin Saint to a cruel death, but caused the fifty philosophers to be " burnt alive.'' |
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From
this custom, the pink has become a symbol of marriage. In portrait
painting, especially of the 15th and 17th cents, when held in the
sitter's hand it signifies that the picture commemorates his betrothal. 
