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Nova Trento, Santa Catarina (Brazil)

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[Flag of Nova Trento,
SC (Brazil)] image by Dirk Schönberger, 11 July 2012


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Municipality

The municipality of Nova Trento (14,549 inhabitants in 2019; 40,212 ha) is located 80 km west of Florianópolis.

Nova Trento was established in 1875 by Italian immigrants coming from Trentino. The district of Nova Trento was established by Provincial Law No. 1,074 promulgated on 4 April 1884, to be elevated a municipality on 8 August 1892.

Among the early immigrants was Amábile Lúcia Visinteiner (1865-1942), born in the village of Vigolo Vattaro, who settled with her family in the (new) village of Vigolo, part of Nova Trento. On 12 July 1860, she founded, with her friend Virginia Rosa Nicolodi, the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Immaculate Conception. They were joined the next year by Teresa Anna Maule. The three founders moved in 1894 to the town of Nova Trento, in a house offerred by benefactors João Valle and Francisco Sgrott. On 7 December 1895, Amábile took the coat as Paulina do Coração Agonizante de Jesus.
Elected in 1903 Superior General of the congregation, Mother Paulina was sent in 1909 to Bragança Paulista by the ecclesiastic authorities. Nine years later, she retired in the congregation's headquarters in São Paulo. The congregation was canonically approved on 19 May 1933 by Pöpe Pius XI.
Mother Paulina was blessed in Florianópolis on 18 October 1991 by Pope John Paul II and canonized on 19 May 2002 in Rome. To welcome the ever increasing number of pilgrims, the congregation erected a sanctuary in Nova Trento, which was consecrated on 22 January 2006.

https://santuariosantapaulina.org.br/
Sanctuary website

Ivan Sache, 4 November 2021


Description of the Flag

A vertical tricolour, green-white-red, with the municipal arms in the centre.

On the official website is shown a textual description about the flag, but no
image, at http://www.novatrento.sc.gov.br/conteudo/?item=25364&fa=6589&cd=20640.
Dirk Schönberger, 11 July 2012

The flag of Nova Trento is prescribed by Municipal Law No. 487 promulgated on 23 August 1973.

Article 2.
The flag shall be of rectangular shape, in dimensions 1.25 m in length on 90 cm in width.

Article 3.
The flag shall be made of three stripes arranged vertically, with the following colors: 1. A green stripe of 30 cm in length on 90 cm in width; 2. A white stripe of 78 cm in length on 90 cm in width; 3. A red stripe of 30 cm in length on 90 cm in width.

Article 4.
The white stripe shall be charged in the center, horizontally, with the coat of arms of the municipality, in the following dimensions: 55 cm in the vertical dimension, including the tower's top and the end of the scroll inscribed with the date of colonization of Novo Trento.

https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/n/nova-trento/lei-ordinaria/1973/49/487/lei-ordinaria-n-487-1973-cria-a-bandeira-oficial-do-municipio-de-nova-trento
Leis Municipais database

Article 4 of the Law was modified by Municipal Law No. 1,626 promulgated on 23 August 1973.

Article 4.
The white stripe shall be charged in the center, horizontally, with the coat of arms of the municipality, in the following dimensions: 55 cm in the vertical dimension, including the tower's top and the end of the scroll inscribed with the date of political emancipation of the municipality (1892).

https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/n/nova-trento/lei-ordinaria/1998/162/1626/lei-ordinaria-n-1626-1998-altera-artigo-da-lei-n-487-de-23-de-agosto-de-1973
Leis Municipais database

The coat of arms of Nova Trento is prescribed by Municipal Law No. 397 promulgated on 30 November 1968.

Oddly enough, the arms are not described in the Law.

https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/n/nova-trento/lei-ordinaria/1968/40/397/lei-ordinaria-n-397-1968-institui-brasao-para-o-municipio-de-nova-trento
Leis Municipais database

The mural crown symbolizes the Italian duchy at the time of immigration.
The upper blue field represents the sky; the sun represents wealth and liberty and the new horizons desired by the immigrants who settled in Novo Trento.
The red quarter represents the martyred of the patron saint, St. Vigilius, and the immigrants' courage. The crosier represents the Bishopric of Trento (Italy), whose patron saint is St. Vigilius; yellow is the color symbolizing faith in the immigrants' homeland and the formation of the colony. The bunch of grapes inserted in the crosier represents wine-growing, present in the municipality.
The green quarter represents hope and the forests. The plow symbolizes agriculture.
The yellow stripe is inscribed with the name of the municipality and the year of colonization, "1875".

https://www.novatrento.sc.gov.br/cms/pagina/ver/codMapaItem/70594
Municipal website

The dimensions of the flag given in the Law do not make sense. The flag mostly used has equal stripes.

Photos
https://www.novatrento.sc.gov.br/noticias/index/ver/codMapaItem/33857/codNoticia/209764
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituradenovatrento/photos/1987326441422206
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituradenovatrento/photos/1985085171646333

Ivan Sache, 4 November 2021

[Flag of Nova Trento,
SC (Brazil)] image by Ivan Sache, 4 November 2021

The flag is also used with vertical respective proportions 1:2:1.

Photo
https://otrentino.com.br/neotrentino-conquista-medalha-de-bronze-nos-jasc/

Ivan Sache, 4 November 2021