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by Joseph McMillan
The flag of the municipality of Aracati, Ceará, can be found at
http://www.aracati.com.br/aronline/aracati-bandeira.gif.
Dov Gutterman, 15 June 2001
From
www.geocities.com.br/imagemm/simbolos.htm comes the information
that "In a session of the senate of the chamber of the municipality conducted
in February 1750, on the suggestion of the ouvidor geral of
the captaincy of Ceará, it was decided to adopt as a standard a red
damask banner having on the center an oval shield presenting
on one side the royal arms and on the other a cross." The cross reflects the
original name of the town, founded in 1747 as Vila da Santa Cruz
do Aracati, so named because of the presence in the area of a memorial cross.
The Portuguese coat of arms is that of the time of King D. José I.
Joseph McMillan, 14 March 2002
Ouvidor geral means "general listener," a royal appointee
in charge of reporting
to the king back in Portugal about the needs (and deeds) of the newly
settled lands. The holder of this
title later had his actual job enhanced considerably, but I'm not really
an expert in the history of Brazil. The Portuguese coat of arms
of the time of D. José is,
in its lesser form (shield only), the very same we use in Portugal today.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 March 2002
