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Christian colours

Liturgical white, red, green, purple and rose, Marian blue and cardinal red.

#800080 Purple A cool colour between red and blue, long linked with royalty and rarityBasic colour · 🇱🇧 Lebanon +5

#120A8F Ultramarine A deep blue pigment once made from lapis lazuli, prized for centuries in artPigment · 🇦🇫 Afghanistan +2

#E25822 Scarlet A bright red with a touch of orange, long tied to power, sacrifice and sinNamed shade · 🇹🇷 Turkey +4

#E34234 Vermilion A brilliant orange-red pigment, once made from toxic mercury orePigment · 🇹🇷 Turkey +5

#800000 Maroon A deep brownish red named for the French word for chestnutNamed shade · 🇦🇺 Australia +4

#008080 Teal A dark cyan named after the Eurasian teal bird’s blue-green head stripeNamed shade

#FF0080 Rose A bright colour halfway between red and magenta on the colour wheelNamed shade

#007BA7 Cerulean A blue-green colour once made from cobalt stannate and linked with the skyNamed shade · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

#4B61D1 Savoy blueblu Savoia A bright blue between peacock blue and periwinkle, a symbol of Italy since the Middle AgesNamed shade · 🇮🇹 Italy

#ADD8E6 Light blue A pale blue shade found between blue and cyan, seen in flags and daily life worldwideNamed shade · 🇫🇷 France +5

#009C8C Blue-green The colour between blue and green, part of the cyan familyNamed shade · 🇦🇺 Australia +3 #00488B Marian blue A deep blue shade linked with images of the Virgin Mary in Christian artNamed shade · 🇦🇫 Afghanistan

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Rose: Petro Stelte, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Light blue: Yosef Ben Melamed, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Savoy blue: El Gráfico, Public domain, source
Ultramarine: Unknown author, Public domain, source
Maroon: Unknown author, Public domain, source
Scarlet: Daderot, Public domain, source
Vermilion: عُثمان, CC0, source
Teal: Unknown author, CC0, source
Blue-green: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, source
Cerulean: Stephhzz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Purple: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, source

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