The hands of Christ and Francis cross each other and are surrounded by two branches: one with thorns and without flowers that seem to extend into another branch, without thorns, at the top of which there are two flowers.
The Emblem expresses the Pascal Mystery of Death and Resurrection, of pain and of consolation. “to do always the Holy Will of that God that overthrow and arouse, that trouble and that console” (Madre Miradio, Palma Campania, Christmas 1918). The Cross of Our Lord Jesus is placed in the centre: “They will look at the one whom they pierced” ( Zc 12, 10.).
The sign of the Cross is crossed by the bare arm of Jesus . An arm covered by a brown colored habit, that of Francis, goes in the opposite direction and evokes the response of adherence to Christ. A floral frame not only gives chromatic tones to the emblem, but the two branches intertwine in a crown around the Cross. On the right, a branch bristling with thorns, but always green , signifies flowering at the time of trial (Passion) and the two flowers, on the left, the Mystery of Christ and his Resurrection.
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