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![[Flag of St. Catherine's College]](../images/g/gb_ousca.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 February 2019External links:
The flag is a banner of arms (ratio 1:2).
Source: Twitter account
Coat
of Arms:
Shield Sable, a saltire Ermine between four bladed wheels Or.
Motto on white scroll beneath: “NOVA ET VETERA” (= The New and the Old)
The
college was the successor of St Catherine’s Society and was established as a
college in 1962. It was originally a delegacy of the University and using the
arms of the University with two differences : the words on the book have been
changed to “SAPIENTIA ET FELICITATE” and there was a canton Argent, charged with
a bladed wheel Gules. Formerly another shield was used indiscriminately with the
one mentioned, blazoned as follows: “Shield Gules, a bend Argent, charged with
three bladed wheels Gules”). It is now used only by the Boat Club. Neither of
these coats of arms have been granted. The College is currently using the device
here appended. By legend St. Catherine of Alexandria was condemned to be broken
on the wheel but it shattered at her touch and she was instead beheaded.
https://www.theheraldrysociety.com/articles/oxford-university-and-its-colleges/
The current coat of arms is similar to that one of St. Hugh’s coat of arms,
which displays four fleurs-de-lys instead of the bladed wheels. Source does not
mention, whether it was inspired from the arms of St. Hugh’s or whether the
similarities occurred incidentally.
Source:
https://issuu.com/oxfordalumni/docs/ot-michaelmas-15/50
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Catherine%27s_College,_Oxford
Klaus-Michael
Schneider, 12 February 2019
A photograph of the flag from
https://www.facebook.com/stcatzlibrary shows a more detailed arrangement of
the ermines and wheels.
Esteban Rivera, 19 September 2020
![[Arms of St. Catherine's College]](../images/g/gb_ousca).gif)
An image of the shield from the coat of arms shows that the flag is a banner
of arms.
Esteban Rivera, 19 September 2020
![[Old Arms of St. Catherine's College]](../images/g/gb_ousca1).jpg)
image located by Klaus-Michael
Schneider, 13 March 2019
Source:
https://www.akpool.co.uk/postcards/26543595-studentika-wappen-postcard-oxford-university-arms-of-the-colleges-of-oxford
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-three-postcards-showing-the-oars-flags-and-arms-of-oxford-university-79810690.html
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 March 2019
![[Flag of the College Boat Club]](../images/g/gb@ousca.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 March 2019
The flag is red, parted by a white bend, cotized red-white and charged with
three red bladed wheels.
http://catzrowing.org/gallery/2015-2016-season/ and
https://www.facebook.com/StCatzBC/photos/a.427961127229604/1122203937805316/?type=1&theater
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 March 2019
Current
![[Blade]](../images/g/gb@ousca).gif)
image by
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 March 2019
Blade is French grey with red
(officially cerise) bladed wheel, the symbol of the patron saint.
Source: (for current versions):
https://www.reddit.com
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 March 2019
