[P-Marlowe]

Is that the Boy Scout sign?

[annalex]

Looks like a lily, and if so, I think France, and the Bourbon lily, and so the Scouts.

Speaking of bourbon, is it that time yet? Been a long week.

I will research the lily. I notice a lot of these images are French.

[annalex]

OK. About those flowers. When with staff, the flowers represent the method of how Mary's spouse was chosen, see The Protoevangelium of James chapter 9 (in actuality they were doves and not flowers emerging from the staff, but the artists wisely sought to avoid the confusion of the doves of St,. Joseph's rod with the Holy Spirit).

The lilies is a reference to his chastity. No relation to the Bourbon Lily.

He is, of course, often depicted with carpenter tools as well. Among other things, he is the patron saint of fighting communism and of the New World.

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