Polish Religious flags

Last modified: 2002-10-05 by jarig bakker
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Catholic Church flag

Religious(?) flag spotted throughout the country of horizontal white/blue-- often next to a Vatican flag stripped of its coat of arms.
Luc Baronian, 18 May 1999

The Vatican striped flag is the flag of the Catholic church. Concerning this white and blue flag, would it have been in France, I would have immediately said that it was a horizontal version of the flag of Jeanne d'Arc, but I think this is a flag related here to the Virgin Mary. See for instance the origin of the blue colour in the former French king's coat of arms.
Pascal Vagnat, 19 May 1999

If by w/b you mean white/blue (not black), then the flag is the Marian flag - it is a bicolour of the colours associated with Mary in the Polish usage. I remember when I was in Poland as a child in 1974, I acquired a Polish flag, a yellow/white flag and a white/blue flag.
Robert M J Czernkowski, 21 May 1999

I see the marianist flag and is white over light blue (celeste) better that dark blue. In my city (and I believe in other cities too) is used with the local virgin in center.
Jaume Ollé, 1 Feb 2001

I used the blue color of the Arms of Pope John-Paul II on the Vatican page for this image.
Jarig Bakker, 1 Feb 2001

Catholic Church yellow-white flag

Churches in Warsaw - Two flag were spotted
1) white over blue.
2) yellow over white (at same ratio as Polish flag 5:8)
Dov Gutterman, 22 Mar 2002

Polish National Catholic Church (used abroad)

Here is a flag of the Polish National Catholic Church. Broke away from the RC in 1897 (Pennsylvania). Most of the adherents are in the US and Canada, few in Poland and elsewhere.Member of the National Council of Churches (US) and the World Council of Churches.
The motto says: "Through Truth, Struggle and Work - -We Will Overcome"
Chrystian Kretowicz, 25 Jan 2002

The Old Catholics started in 1870 as a group opposed to the "then newly proclaimed" doctrine of Papal Infallibility. That doctrine itself being a response to the final unification of Italy, and the loss of the bulk of the papal lands, except for the Vatican City itself and a few minor areas.
The PNCC lis