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![[Flag of St. Anthony's College]](../images/g/gb_ousta.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 February 2019External links:
The flag is a banner of arms (ratio 1:1).
Source: The Antonian, ed. 2017;
p.4
Coat of Arms:
Shield Or, a chevron Gules charged with three mullets Or
and surrounded by three tau crosses Gules.
Meaning:
The arms were granted
in 1952 and combine elements relating to Sir Antonin Besse, a French-born trader
based in Aden, the founder. The mullets are said to be from a Besse company
trademark. They are in the coat of arms of the Besse family in Switzerland. The
colours are referring to the Red Sea and the desert. Though in 1961 college
officials connected the name with St. Anthony of Egypt, the tau cross is
associated with followers of Francis of Assisi, who considered a tau as a
simplified cross due to a suggestion of Pope Innocent. St. Francis made it the
cross of his Order. St. Antony of Padua, who named himself after St. Anthony of
Egypt, was the 2nd Franciscan to be sainted and is likely to be the person to
whom the three tau crosses refer. His statue is in the Hilda Besse building.
Source: John P. Brooke-Little: Oxford University and
its Colleges, Oxford 1962(?), available online at
https://www.theheraldrysociety.com/articles/oxford-university-and-its-colleges/
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Antony%27s_College,_Oxford.
Klaus-Michael
Schneider, 12 February 2019
Current
![[Blade]](../images/g/gb@ousta).gif)
image by
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 March 2019
Blade is parted of yellow and red
by a black stripe.
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Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 March 2019