{"id":44244,"date":"2015-03-29T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T00:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=44244"},"modified":"2015-03-29T01:07:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T01:07:05","slug":"the-battle-flags-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=44244","title":{"rendered":"The battle flags of religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; vexilla regis prodeunt, comparative version ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Two recent examples of religious iconography on the battle field.. from the <strong>Badr Brigade, outside Amerli, Iraq<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/badr-brigade.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/badr-brigade.png\" alt=\"badr brigade\" width=\"602\" height=\"455\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/badr-brigade.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/badr-brigade-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and from <strong>Pro-Russia fighters near the eastern Ukrainian city of Starobeshevo<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Christ-flag.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Christ-flag.png\" alt=\"Christ flag\" width=\"602\" height=\"514\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Christ-flag.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Christ-flag-300x256.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Vexilla regis<\/strong> is a hymn written by <strong>Venantius Fortunatus<\/strong> to welcome the procession bringing a fragment of the True Cross to St <strong>Radegunda<\/strong>&#8216;s convent in Poitiers: the first line translates to &#8220;The banners of the king go forth&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Here it is, illustrated with battle flags flown by Catholic and Royalist troops during the <strong>War in the Vend\u00e9e<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PvemigbP3bw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2014\/09\/06\/world\/u-s-iran-deny-military-coordination-in-fight-against-islamic-state-militants\">Iraq<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/mar\/10\/ukraine-russia-richard-sakwa-extract\">Ukraine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; vexilla regis prodeunt, comparative version ] . Two recent examples of religious iconography on the battle field.. from the Badr Brigade, outside Amerli, Iraq: and from Pro-Russia fighters near the eastern Ukrainian city of Starobeshevo: ** The Vexilla regis is a hymn written by Venantius Fortunatus to welcome the procession [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,497,1081,52,45,753,533,91,868,1026,1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-flag","category-france","category-iraq","category-islam","category-religion","category-russia","category-sacred","category-ukraine","category-uncategorized","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44244"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44263,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44244\/revisions\/44263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}