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image by Ivan Sache, 13 July 2014Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya (UARM), based at Lima, is the follower of 
Jesuit colleges that emerged in Peru in the 16th-18th centuries. Founded in the 
20th century, the "Instituto de Humanidades Clásicas" (Institute of Classical 
Humanities) was reestablished in 1991 as the "Escuela de Pedagogía, Filosofía y 
Letras Antonio Ruiz de Montoya" (College of Pedagogy, Philosophy and Literature 
Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, eventually renamed UARM in 2003.
UARM is named for Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, a Lima-borne Jesuit father 
(1582-1652). Montoya founded several Jesuit missions ("reductions") in Guayra, 
ruling 39 of them when appointed head of the missions in 1620. In 1631, he 
organized the transport of 15,000 Christian Indians, threatened by the Brazilian 
slave hunters,to the safer missions located in Paraguay. Montoya obtained in 
1637 from King Philip IV of Spain several privileges and measures of protection 
for the Paraguyan missions.
Montoya also wrote seminal books on the Guaraní language and a noted history of 
the Paraguay missions.
The flag of UARM is white with the seal-like emblem of the university in the 
middle. 
The emblem of UARM is made of the university's arms, placed on a grey disk and 
surrounding by the black writing "UNIVERSIDAD" (top) / "RUIZ DE MONTOYA" 
(bottom). The arms of UARM are "Quarterly, 1. Gules three crowns or placed two 
and one, 2. Vert a cauldron flanked by two wolves argent, 3. Vert a monogram 
"UARM" argent, 4. Gules five bends or. The shield surrounded by the motto 
"GLORIA DEI VIVENS HOMO" in letters sable." 
Source: UARM website
The sinister part of the arms is related to Ignatius de Loyola, see
Unidad Educadiva San Felipe Neri for more 
details.
Photos of the flag are shown:
- on the UARM website, 
President's introduction
- on the PUCP photo gallery, 5th Joint Symposium of Students in Philosophy, 
20-23 October 2009  - 
Album  - 
Photo
Ivan Sache, 09 January 2010
"Gloria dei vivens hiomo" (Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses [Against Heresies] IV, 
20, 7) translates as "The glory of God is a living ma," Irenaeus' aphorism has 
been the subject of several interpretations. In his "Letter to priests for Holy 
Thursday, March 17, 1996", Pope John Paul II wrote:
"6. Gloria Dei vivens homo. These words of Saint Irenaeus profoundly link the 
glory of God and man's self-realization. "Not to us, O Lord, not to us but to 
your name give glory" (Ps 115.1 j: repeating often these words of the Psalmist, 
we come to understand that "realizing' ourselves in life has a point of 
reference and an end which are transcendent, both of them included in the 
concept of the "glory of  God": we are called to make our life an officium 
laudis".
St. Ireneaus (d. c. 202), Bishop of Lyon, is an early church father. "Against 
Heresies" was mostly targeted to the Gnosticis, who relied on a secrete, oral 
tradition, as opposed to the canonical, scriptural tradition controlled by the 
episcopate.
Ivan Sache, 09 January 2010
There is a picture where full UARM flag is depicted, not only its part:
http://www.utec.edu.pe/noticias-firma-convenio-utec-uarm.html
Zoltan Horvath, 11 April 2012