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Arms and flag adopted on October 28, 2004 (resolution # XV/90/04).
"Arms: on the red shield and on the golden mild hill there is a golden
linden tree.
On its right is Święty Onufry (English: Saint Onuphrius; ancient
Egyptian: Wnn-nfr meaning "he-who-is-continuingly-good") kneeling
and praying (in natural colors) and on the left of the tree there are hammer
and axe crossed, silver with the golden handles.
St. Onuphrius (d. c. 400) - While on a visit to the hermits of Thebaid
in Egypt to find out if the eremetical life was for him, Abbot Paphnutius
met Onuphrius, who told him he had been a monk in a monastery but had left
to follow the eremetical life, which he had done for 70 years. During the
night the abbot stayed with the hermit; the next morning, after food had
miraculously appeared the previous evening, Onuphrius told Paphnutius that
the Lord had told him he, Onuphrius, was to die and that Paqphnutius had
been sent ny the Lord to bury him. Onuphrius did die, Paphnutius buried
him in a hole in the mountainside, and the site immediately disappeared,
as if to tell the abbot that he was not to remain there. The story was
put into writing by one of his monks and was already popular in the 6th
century. June 12.
Flag: a rectangle in the ratio of 5:8 divided into three bands in proportions
1:3:1 in colors: red-yellow-red. In the middle of the flag, the Arms are
displayed.
The designer of the Arms and flag is Dr.Włodzimierz Chorązki (heraldist
from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow).
Originally the background of the shield and narrow bands of the flag
were supposed to be blue, but the heraldists and council members came to
the conclusion that color red would be a better choice."
Chrystian Kretowicz, 17 Oct 2008