flowers
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May be used to adorn the altar, fresh-cut ones being preferred, although plants and artificial flowers are permitted. They are forbidden during Advent, excepting Gaudete Sunday, and during Lent, excepting Laetare Sunday.
Associated in Art with
- Blessed Columba of Rieti
- Blessed Diana d’Andalo
- Blessed Francis Patrizzi
- Blessed Gerard of Villamagna
- Blessed Joachim Piccolomini
- Blessed Joan of Bagno di Romagna
- Blessed Jordan of Saxony
- Blessed Julia of Certaldo
- Blessed Mary de Cerevellon
- Blessed Osanna Andreasi
- Blessed Wilburgis
- Gabriel the Archangel
- Our Lady of Sorrows
- Saint Aaron the Patriarch
- Saint Abundantia of Spoleto
- Saint Acisclus of Córdoba
- Saint Agatha of Sicily
- Saint Agnes of Montepulciano
- Saint Aloysius Gonzaga
- Saint Angelus of Jerusalem
- Saint Anthony of Padua
- Saint Antonius of Florence
- Saint Bruno
- Saint Casimir of Poland
- Saint Catherine of Siena
- Saint Cecilia
- Saint Didacus of Alcalá
- Saint Dominic de Guzman
- Saint Dorothy of Caesarea
- Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
- Saint Elizabeth of Portugal
- Saint Emerentiana
- Saint Emeric of Hungary
- Saint Eulalia of Barcelona
- Saint Francis of Paola
- Saint Gemma Galgani
- Saint Germaine Cousin
- Saint Gertrude the Great
- Saint Hermengild
- Saint Hugh of Grenoble
- Saint Joseph of Arimathea
- Saint Justus of Trieste
- Saint Liberata of Como
- Saint Lydwina of Schiedam
- Saint Margaret of Hungary
- Saint Martina of Rome
- Saint Narcissus of Jerusalem
- Saint Nicholas of Tolentino
- Saint Petronilla of Rome
- Saint Philomena
MLA Citation
- “flowers“. Emblems of the Faith. CatholicSaints.Info. 31 March 2009. Web. 23 April 2024. <>