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Christian colours

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

Blue Lapis lazuli A deep blue stone prized for jewellery and the source of ultramarine pigmentColour named from nature · 🇦🇫 Afghanistan +5

Green Malachite A banded green mineral and pigment once prized for art and decorationColour named from nature · 🇪🇬 Egypt +4

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

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

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

Photo credits on this page

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

Malachite: Burkhard Mücke, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Ultramarine: Unknown author, Public domain, source
Lapis lazuli: Adam Ognisty, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Vermilion: عُثمان, CC0, source
Cerulean: Stephhzz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source

The weekly palette

Every Monday: seven colours you may not know, what the world is wearing this week, and one idea about colour.