Enciclopedia Cattolica

STENDARDO (SIGNUM, VEXILLUM; VESSILLO, GONFALONE)

Standard (Signum, Vexillum; vessillo, gonfalone)

Volume XI · p. 797 · 1953

English translation · Testo originale italiano

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Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

STANDARD (signum, vexillum; vessillo, gonfalone). — In ecclesiastical usage, as noted in the Roman Ritual (tit. X, cap. 1, n. 5), these are banners in which the cloth hangs from a horizontal crossbar attached to the vertical staff, which is surmounted by a cross.