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| Keywords: Shield-Trinity-medievalesque.png Medieval-style version of the Shield of the Trinity diagram of traditional western Christian symbolism shown on a red shield The three nodes at the edge of the diagram are labelled with the Latin-language names of the three persons of the Trinity The Father PATER The Son FILIUS and The Holy Spirit scribal abbreviation of SPIRITUS SANCTUS The node in the center of the diagram within the triangle formed by the other three nodes is labelled God Latin DEUS while the three links connecting the center node with the outer nodes are labelled is Latin EST and the three links connecting the outer nodes to each other are labelled is not Latin NON EST -- showing that the three persons of the Trinity are all God but are not the same as each other All connecting links between nodes are non-directional two-way This was considered to be the heraldic coat of arms of God or of the Trinity in 15th-century England and France The banner of the Trinity which Jean Le Fevre Seigneur of St Remy and Jehan de Wavrin attest that Henry V of England displayed at Agincourt would have been the same but with the emblem on a red flag instead of a red shield See File Scutum Fidei on Holy Trinity pulpit - geograph org uk - 1061634 jpg for a photograph of a church decoration A Victorian medievalesque version of this can be seen at http //www heraldsnet org/saitou/parker/Jpglosst htm Trinity as part of the on-line version of the 1894 book A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry by James Parker For one medieval version of this coat of arms of God though with a blue background instead of the red used in England see File Wernigeroder Wappenbuch 010 jpg For further explanation a heraldic blazon and links to other medieval versions of this diagram see the main Shield of the Trinity article For alternative versions of this diagram on Wikimedia Commons see Image 3enighed png Image Shield-Trinity-Scutum-Fidei-basic png Image Trinidad-Anglican-Episcopal-Coat-of-Arms-large png and Image Trinity knight shield jpg medieval This graphic was generated by means of the following PostScript code note that this program references the Zapf Chancery Medium Italic font which is part of the Basic 35 Postscript fonts but not the Basic 14 <pre> /L rlineto def/m moveto def/x 0 0 def/c newpath 60 0 360 arc gsave 1 1 1 setrgbcolor fill grestore stroke def/v rmoveto def/M xmakefont setfont def/r rotate def 2 75 setlinewidth/t /ZapfChancery-MediumItalic findfont def gsave 1 035 dup scale 563 2318840 413 309179 m 0 285 724637 L -529 0 L 0 -285 724637 L 0 -5 0 -5 1 -17 rcurveto 16 -192 162 -248 262 -248 rcurveto 4 0 L 100 0 245 56 261 248 rcurveto 1 12 1 12 1 17 rcurveto gsave 1 x setrgbcolor fill grestore stroke grestore 9 1875 28 translate/X t60 0 -6 60 M def/Z X 49 5 0 v non e show 7 0 v st show def/W X 14 -1 75 v e show 7 0 v st show def 95 587 575 075 m 180 598 -144 434 L 0 -228 241 L 47 63 0 L 0 228 241 L 180 587 144 434 L -23 815 41 25 L -180 587 -144 434 L -181 137 144 434 L gsave 1 1 1 setrgbcolor fill grestore stroke gsave 0 1 translate 514 641 m -429 0 L -25 -18 L 2 -77 15 -165 55 -244 rcurveto 39 -77 98 -159 160 -202 rcurveto 49 0 L 62 42 121 125 160 202 rcurveto 40 79 54 166 56 243 rcurveto 491 594 m -3 -53 -15 -125 -49 -194 rcurveto -37 -74 -92 -153 -142 -185 rcurveto -50 32 -106 111 -143 185 rcurveto -34 69 -45 141 -48 194 rcurveto closepath gsave 1 1 1 setrgbcolor fill grestore stroke 1 x setrgbcolor 57 628 m 0 -8 L 8 0 L 0 8 L fill x 0 setrgbcolor 174 603 75 m Z gsave 62 r 420 -237 m Z grestore gsave -62 r -387 292 m Z grestore grestore 300 444 391 c 110 85 590 7 c 489 15 590 7 c 300 227 4 c gsave 38 64 r 583 145 5 m W grestore gsave -38 64 r -206 520 3 m W grestore gsave -90 r -381 288 m W grestore t 54 0 -5 4 54 M 60 584 m p show - 5 0 v ater show 442 584 m \256lius show 259 241 5 m spt show 6 0 v s show 280 5 242 m \305 show 265 187 m sct show 6 0 v s show 282 187 5 m \305 show 246 431 75 m t61 5 0 -6 15 61 5 M 1 5 0 deu ashow 1 5 0 v s show showpage EOF</pre> 2006 AnonMoos <gallery>File Scutum Fidei on Holy Trinity pulpit - geograph org uk - 1061634 jpg</gallery> Shield-Trinity-medievalesque svg Trinity in heraldry Images with PostScript source code | ||||
