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![[Flag of Nova Trento,
SC (Brazil)]](../images/b/br-sc-172.gif)
image by Dirk Schönberger, 11 July 2012
The municipality of Nova Trento (14,549 inhabitants in 2019; 40,212 ha) is
located 80 km west of Florianópolis.
Nova Trento was established in 1875
by Italian immigrants coming from Trentino. The district of Nova Trento was
established by Provincial Law No. 1,074 promulgated on 4 April 1884, to be
elevated a municipality on 8 August 1892.
Among the early immigrants was
Amábile Lúcia Visinteiner (1865-1942), born in the village of Vigolo Vattaro,
who settled with her family in the (new) village of Vigolo, part of Nova Trento.
On 12 July 1860, she founded, with her friend Virginia Rosa Nicolodi, the
Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Immaculate Conception. They were
joined the next year by Teresa Anna Maule. The three founders moved in 1894 to
the town of Nova Trento, in a house offerred by benefactors João Valle and
Francisco Sgrott. On 7 December 1895, Amábile took the coat as Paulina do
Coração Agonizante de Jesus.
Elected in 1903 Superior General of the
congregation, Mother Paulina was sent in 1909 to Bragança Paulista by the
ecclesiastic authorities. Nine years later, she retired in the congregation's
headquarters in São Paulo. The congregation was canonically approved on 19 May
1933 by Pöpe Pius XI.
Mother Paulina was blessed in Florianópolis on 18
October 1991 by Pope John Paul II and canonized on 19 May 2002 in Rome. To
welcome the ever increasing number of pilgrims, the congregation erected a
sanctuary in Nova Trento, which was consecrated on 22 January 2006.
https://santuariosantapaulina.org.br/
Sanctuary website
Ivan Sache, 4 November 2021
A vertical tricolour, green-white-red, with the municipal arms in the centre.
On the official website is shown a textual description about the flag, but no
image, at
http://www.novatrento.sc.gov.br/conteudo/?item=25364&fa=6589&cd=20640.
Dirk Schönberger, 11 July 2012
The flag of Nova Trento is prescribed by Municipal Law No. 487 promulgated on
23 August 1973.
Article 2.
The flag shall be of rectangular shape, in
dimensions 1.25 m in length on 90 cm in width.
Article 3.
The flag
shall be made of three stripes arranged vertically, with the following colors:
1. A green stripe of 30 cm in length on 90 cm in width; 2. A white stripe of 78
cm in length on 90 cm in width; 3. A red stripe of 30 cm in length on 90 cm in
width.
Article 4.
The white stripe shall be charged in the center,
horizontally, with the coat of arms of the municipality, in the following
dimensions: 55 cm in the vertical dimension, including the tower's top and the
end of the scroll inscribed with the date of colonization of Novo Trento.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/n/nova-trento/lei-ordinaria/1973/49/487/lei-ordinaria-n-487-1973-cria-a-bandeira-oficial-do-municipio-de-nova-trento
Leis Municipais database
Article 4 of the Law was modified by
Municipal Law No. 1,626 promulgated on 23 August 1973.
Article 4.
The
white stripe shall be charged in the center, horizontally, with the coat of arms
of the municipality, in the following dimensions: 55 cm in the vertical
dimension, including the tower's top and the end of the scroll inscribed with
the date of political emancipation of the municipality (1892).
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/n/nova-trento/lei-ordinaria/1998/162/1626/lei-ordinaria-n-1626-1998-altera-artigo-da-lei-n-487-de-23-de-agosto-de-1973
Leis Municipais database
The coat of arms of Nova Trento is
prescribed by Municipal Law No. 397 promulgated on 30 November 1968.
Oddly enough, the arms are not described in the Law.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/n/nova-trento/lei-ordinaria/1968/40/397/lei-ordinaria-n-397-1968-institui-brasao-para-o-municipio-de-nova-trento
Leis Municipais database
The mural crown symbolizes the Italian duchy
at the time of immigration.
The upper blue field represents the sky; the sun
represents wealth and liberty and the new horizons desired by the immigrants who
settled in Novo Trento.
The red quarter represents the martyred of the patron
saint, St. Vigilius, and the immigrants' courage. The crosier represents the
Bishopric of Trento (Italy), whose patron saint is St. Vigilius; yellow is the
color symbolizing faith in the immigrants' homeland and the formation of the
colony. The bunch of grapes inserted in the crosier represents wine-growing,
present in the municipality.
The green quarter represents hope and the
forests. The plow symbolizes agriculture.
The yellow stripe is inscribed with
the name of the municipality and the year of colonization, "1875".
https://www.novatrento.sc.gov.br/cms/pagina/ver/codMapaItem/70594
Municipal website
The dimensions of the flag given in the Law do not make
sense. The flag mostly used has equal stripes.
Photos
https://www.novatrento.sc.gov.br/noticias/index/ver/codMapaItem/33857/codNoticia/209764
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituradenovatrento/photos/1987326441422206
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituradenovatrento/photos/1985085171646333
Ivan Sache, 4 November 2021
image by Ivan Sache,
4 November 2021
The flag is also used with vertical respective proportions 1:2:1.
Photo
https://otrentino.com.br/neotrentino-conquista-medalha-de-bronze-nos-jasc/
Ivan Sache, 4 November 2021