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Santa Ana, Colegio


image by Ivan Sache, 11 November 2010

Colegio Santa Ana, located in Fontibón (Bogotá Capital District), was founded in 1948 by Ligia Mendoza de Méndez.
The flag of Colegio Santa Ana, as shown graphically on the institute's website, is horizontally divided green-white. Green means hope, vision of triumph and continuity in duty. White represents ethical and moral honesty.
Source: http://colegiosantaana.edu.co/WebSite/simbolos.jsp
Ivan Sache, 11 November 2010


Santa Ana de Flores, Colegio


image by Ivan Sache, 15 November 2010

Colegio Santa Ana de Flores is located in Simacota, Department of Santander.
The flag of Colegio Santa Ana de Flores, as shown graphically on the institute's blog, is divided white-green by the ascending diagonal. White represents peace and tranquillity. Green represents the natural resources and hope in a better future.
http://cesanpedro.wordpress.com/
Ivan Sache, 15 November 2010


Santa Bertilla Boscardín, Colegio


image by Ivan Sache, 18 July 2014

Colegio Santa Bertilla Boscardín was established in Medellín (Antioquia Department) by the Congregation of the Teachers of Saint Dorothy, Daughters of the Sacred Heart. The congregation was founded in 1836 in Italy by Giovanni Antonio Farina (1803-1888; to be canonized on 23 November 2014 by Pope Francis; Bishop of Trevise [1850] and of Vicenza [1860]) "to educate girls from poor families" and recognized on 1 March 1839 by Pope Gregory XVI; in South America, it has branches in Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador. The institute is named for St. Maria Bertilla Boscardin (1888-1922; canonized on 11 May 1961 by Pope John XXIII), who took the coat in Farina's congregation on 15 October 1905, as Sister Maria Bertilla, and worked at the children's service of the Trevise hospital from 1907 until her death.

The flag of the institute is horizontally divided white-lilac pink. White is a symbol of candor and innocence of children. Lilac pink is a symbol of the greatness and dignity of teenagers. Lilac forms a balance between red and blue, symbolizing struggle and truce, acts and thoughts, work and rest, scream and silence, study and recreation, emotionalism and discernment, respectively. Lilac is also a symbol of nobleness and delicacy.
http://www.sbertilla.edu.co/images/stories/documentosPDF/simbolos.pdf - Institute's website
Ivan Sache
, 18 July 2014


Santa Catalina de Siena, Colegio


image by Ivan Sache, 14 November 2010

Colegio Santa Catalina de Siena, located in Maicao (Department of La Guajira), is the main seat of Institución Educativa No. 3.
The flag of Colegio Santa Catalina de Siena, also used (by default) by Institución Educativa No. 3, is shown on the institute's website as horizontally divided white-red. White symbolizes peace and purity. Red symbolizes love. Peace and love are presented as the two words that fostered St. Catherine of Siena's life.
Source: http://proyeccionconliderazgotic.blogspot.com/2009/03/nuestros-simbolos.html
Ivan Sache, 14 November 2010


Santa Clara de Asis, Colegio

Obverse

image by Ivan Sache, 30 June 2014

Reverse:

image by Ivan Sache, 30 June 2014

Colegio Santa Clara de Asis was established on 22 January 1942 in Pasto (Nariño Department) by Sisters Meinrada Wolf, Teolina Villegas, Ana Margarita Osorio, Rosa Margarita Mantilla and Victoria Luisa Marín. The five nuns belong to the congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate, founded in March 1893 in Túquerres by Mother Caridad Bader.
The institute is named for St. Clare of Assisi (1194-1253; canonized on 26 September 1255 by Pope Alexander IV), one of the first followers of St. Francis of Assisi (1181/2-1226; canonized on 16 July 1228 by Pope Gregory IX) and the founder of the Order of St. Clare (Clarisses).
The flag of the institute is, on the obverse, pink with the institute's emblem in the middle, and, on the reverse, green. Pink is a symbol of the joy of the youth. Green is a symbol of search and aspiration to a promising future.
The emblem of the institute, adopted in 1971, was designed by Sister Damascena Brunner. The shield is of modern Gothic shape, different from the ancient  Gothic shape by the point at the shield's bottom. The shield is divided by a gray bend sinister, representing the girdle of St. Francis of Assisi. The dexter field is red, a symbol of charity, love, force and blood, charged with a chalice, a symbol of love, and with a bread and a cross, symbols of unity. The sinister field is argent, a symbol of chastity, humility and limpidity, charged with a lamp, a symbol of science. All the charges are yellow, except the candle set in the lamp, which is red. The shield has a black bordure inscribed with "SANTA CLARA DE  ASIS" (top) and "AMOR Y CIENCIA" (Love and Science, bottom) in white letters.
Source: http://www.colegiosantaclara.edu.co/mi-colegio/simbolos.html
Ivan Sache, 30 June 2014


Santa Clara, Escuela Normal Superior


image by Ivan Sache, 03 July 2011

"Escuela Normal Superior Santa Clara" is located in Almaguer (Cauca Department). The flag of the institute, as shown on the institute's blog (photo), is horizontally divided yellow-green.
Source: http://escuelanexa.blogspot.com/2010/06/escuela-normal-superioir-santa-clara.html
Ivan Sache, 03 July 2011


Santa Fe, Colegio


image by Ivan Sache, 4 February 2009

"Colegio Santa Fe" was founded in 1953 at Valledupar, Department of Cesar.
The flag of the institute, according to a photo and the description available on the institute website, is horizontally divided green- white. Green symbolizes hope while white symbolizes transparency.
Ivan Sache, 4 February 2009


Santa Inés, Colegio


image by Ivan Sache, 09 December 2013

Colegio Santa Inés is a Franciscan educational institute based in Manizales.
The flag of Colegio Santa Inés is horizontally divided white-pink with the institute's emblem in the middle. White and pink symbolize purity and youth, respectively.
The emblem of Colegio Santa Inés features the Latin motto "VIRTUS  SCIENTIA" (Virtue and Science) and the flaming torch of science,  surrounded by spiny roses and thorns. The roses represent juvenile beauty; the spines recall that beauty should be protected from those who threaten it or attempt to rob its perfume.
The thorns recall that Jesus Christ designed our way on thorns.
Source: http://www.colsantaines.edu.co/Simbolos.html
Ivan Sache, 09 December 2013


Santa Isabel de Hungría, Colegio


image by Ivan Sache, 07 July 2011

"Colegio Santa Isabel de Hungría", located in the Villabel borough, Floridablanca (Santander Department), originates in the "Fundación Centro Parroquial Villabel", founded on 28 February 1980 in the Santa Isabel de Hungría (St. Elisabeth of Hungary) parish. On 25 November 1988, a secondary seat of "Gimnasio José Alexandro Perralta", located in the Girón borough, was inaugurated in Villabel. The institute took its current name on 25 October 1991.
The flag of the institute is described on the institute's website as "made of three colors: red, white and green, in three horizontal stripes, strictly identical to the stripes of the Republic of Hungary. The three colors mean: strength, sacrifice, purity and hope."
Source: http://www.colsih.edu.co/
Ivan Sache, 07 July 2011


Santa Juana de Arco, Institución Educativa

"Institución Educativa 'Santa Juana de Arco'" (St. Joan of Arc) is located at Santa María, Department of Huila.
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically and described on the blog of the institute, is white with three blue and yellow fleurs-de- lis placed along the descending diagonal.
The flag, designed by Father Jairo Trujillo Polanco in 1975, is based on Joan of Arc's [alleged] standard. White symbolizes the purity of the saint. The fleur-de-lis, the French national flower [sic], is a tribute to Joan of Arc's motherland.
Ivan Sache, 4 February 2009


Santa Librada, Colegio de


image by Ivan Sache, 9 June 2001

Colegio de Santa Librada - 1:2 (apparently), quarterly divided green-white-white-green The flag is shown on <www.santalibrada.edu.co>, located by Dov Gutterman.
Ivan Sache, 9 June 2001


Santa Librada, Colegio Distrital

"Colegio Distrital Santa Librada" is located at Bogotá. The college is named after St. Librada (Liberata, Livrade...), aka St. Wilgefortis, aka St. Uncomber, the patron saint of women wishing to be "disuncombered" from abusive husbands. Known as "the bearded virgin" but without any historic background, the poor saint was removed from the list of commemorated saints by the Roman Catholic Church in 1969.
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically and described on the website of the institute, is slightly higher than wide, white with an aquamarine triangle pointing downwards charged with a white rising sun. An alternative interpretation of the drawing is a triangular light aquamarine flag with a white rising sun.
The sun represents light, energy, joy, commitment and solidarity of all the members of the institute. White represents peace, unity and the interest of the institute.  Aquamarine represents tranquility, future, strength and commitment to study of the students.
Ivan Sache, 18 January 2009


Santa Librada, Colegio Nacional


image by Ivan Sache, 24 July 2014

Colegio Provincial de Neiva (Santander Department) was established by Provincial Ordinance on 26 September 1845. Classes in Spanish Grammar and Latin started on 1 January 1849. The institute was subsequently renamed Colegio Democrático (Ordinance No. 26 of 9 October 1850), Colegio de Santa Librada (Law of 27 October 1870), and, eventually Colegio Nacional Santa Librada (Law No. 92 of 1937). The most famous student of the institute, mentioned in the institute's anthem, is the writer José Eustasio Rivera (1888-1928), author of the naturalist novel "La vorágine" (The Vortex, 1924), considered as the Colombian national epic and as a milestone in the South American literature.

The institute is named after St. Librada (Liberata, Livrade...), aka St. Wilgefortis, aka St. Uncomber, the patron saint of women wishing to be "disencumbered" from abusive husbands. Known as "the bearded virgin" but without any historical background, the poor saint was removed from the list of commemorated saints by the Roman Catholic Church in 1969.

The flag of the institute is horizontally divided yellow-black.
http://galeon.com/colnalstalibrada/aficiones2558628.html - Luz Sary Herrera Cano's blog
Ivan Sache, 24 July 2014


Santa Lucía, Colegio Parroquial


image by Ivan Sache, 5 January 2009

"Colegio Parroquial Santa Lucía"  was founded in 1987 in Floridablanca by Father Silvano Poletto, parish priest of Santa Lucía and legal representative in Colombia of the religious community of the "Siervos de la Caridad" (Servants of Charity), a community founded by the Italian priest Luis Guanella (1842-1915, blessed in 1964).
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically and described on the website of the institute, is vertically divided blue-white-yellow.
Blue represents the natural environment, empathy and respect of the students for their surroundings, including humans and the ecological environment.
White represents the light protecting the college and enlightening our lives, as well as truth and transparency to be attained by the students.
Yellow represents the Catholic faith and religious education.
The flag can be seen on a photo, as presented by the band of the institute.
Ivan Sache, 5 January 2009


Santa Maria, Institución Educativa


image by Ivan Sache, 13 September 2014

Institución Educativa Santa Maria was established in the Santa Maria borough, part of the municipality of Cartagena de Indias (Bolivar Department) by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, a congregation founded in 1835 by the French nun St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier (1796-1868, canonised on 2 May 1940 by Pope Pius XII). The congregation settled in Cartagena on 21 July 1951, with the support of Archbishop López Umaña. One of he aims of the nuns was to provide education to children of jailed parents. It took them 10 years to establish a first school, Escuela Ana María Vélez de Trujillo, founded on 8 February 1961 and inaugurated in 1962 with some 150 students. Soon transferred to new grounds, the institute was renamed in 1964 Escuela Hogar del Buen Pastor. After the official inauguration of the new buildings on 22 February 1965, the institute was renamed Instituto Santa María. Decree No. 224 of 1 March 1968 renamed it Escuela Santa María. Transferred back in 1987 to its original grounds, the institute was renamed in 1995 Concentración Educativa Santa María.
Institución Educativa Santa Maria was eventually established by Municipal Resolution No. 776 of 10 May 2002, incorporating Escuela Nuestra Señora de Fátima, Escuela Marco Fidel Suárez, and Escuela Sagrado Corazón de Jesús.
Source: http://santamaria.ieocartagena.edu.co/
The flag of the institute is horizontally divided celestial blue-white. The upper stripe symbolizes the sky and the water that border our  Caribbean territory. The lower stripe symbolizes our aspiration to conquer and transform our environment to live together in a world of peace and love.
Source: http://santamaria.ieocartagena.edu.co/pagina-ejemplo/
Ivan Sache, 13 September 2014


Santa María Goretti, Institución Educativa


image by Ivan Sache, 13 September 2014

Institución Educativa Santa María Goretti originates in a school established on 15 October 1933 in Mocoa (Putumayo Department) by Mother Mónica Wirth and Sisters María Pilar Revelo, María Cornelia Greissing, María Luciana Báchtiger and Lina Erazo. Colegio Femenino de Bachillerato Santa María Goretti was established by Resolution No. 21 of 30 September 1967.
The institute is named for St. Maria Goretti (1890-1902; canonized on 24 June 1950 by Pope Pius XII).)
The flag of the institute is vertically divided green-white-red.
Source: http://www.goretti.edu.co/web/index.html - Institute's website
Ivan Sache, 13 September 2014


Santa María Mazzarello, Colegio


image by Ivan Sache, 29 June 2014

Colegio Santa María Mazzarello was established in Canaguaro (Meta Department) by the Salesian Sisters. The institute is named for St. Maria Domenica Mazzarello (1837-1881; canonized on 24 June 1951), the founder of the Salesian Sisters, aka Daughters of Mary Help of Christians.
The flag of the institute is horizontally divided blue-pink. Blue and pink are the colours of the cloak and of the tunic of Mary  Help of Christians. Blue is a symbol of transcendency. Pink is the mixture of red and white. Red is a symbol of force and  sacrifice, reason and love. White is a symbol of rectitude,  transparency and strength. Accordingly, pink is a symbol of the  tenderness and kindness of the institute's patron saint.
Source: http://colsantamariamazzarello.jimdo.com/inicio/simbolos/
Ivan Sache, 29 June 2014


Santa Mariana de Jesús, Colegio


image by Ivan Sache, 07 July 2011

"Colegio Santa Mariana de Jesús", located in Portería (Bogotá Capital District), is managed by the Sisters of Mariana de Jesús, a congregation founded on 14 April 1873 by the Ecuadorian nun Blessed Mercedes de Jesús Molina (1828-1883).
The flag of the institute is shown graphically and described on the institute's website as horizontally divided "white-sweet red", that is pink.
Source: http://colegiosantamarianadejesus.com/institucional.html
Pink must be the color of the Sisters of Mariana de Jesús. During the beatification ceremony held on 1 February 1985 in Guayaquil, Pope John Paul II called Mercedes de Jesús Molina "the Rose of Baba [her birth place] and Guayaquil". She is locally known as "la Rosa del Guayas".
Ivan Sache, 07 July 2011


Santander, Universidad Industrial de


image by Eugene Ipavec, 22 February 2007

The Industrial University of Santander is located in Bucaramanga. The flag is apparently available on the home page of the university web site.
Ron Lahav, 22 February 2007

Simple white/green bicolor; the shade of green is specified as PANTONE 368c, CMYK 50:0:95:0, RGB 103:185: 62.
Eugene Ipavec, 22 February 2007

From university web site, we learn the meaning of the green colour. Green is a bright colour symbolizing hope and a chromatic sign evoking the opening of man towards all possible constructions, utopia, the best for society, all implicit elements in the educative task.
Ivan Sache, 30 December 2008


Santa Rosa de Cabal, Universidad


image by Ivan Sache, 17 December 2008

"Universidad Santa Rosa de Cabal" (UNISARC) is the Colombian agronomic university. The "El Jazmin" campus has a crop farms, a cattle farm, a fish breeding station and a technological park.
The flag of UNISARC is shown graphically and described in the UNISARC website.
The flag is horizontally divided yellow-green with a simplified version of the UNISARC emblem in the middle.
The colours symbolize the balance between knowledge (represented by yellow) and the natural environment (represented by green).
The hexagonal emblem stands for the six (economic, social, technological, cultural, environmental and political) issues addressed by UNISARC.
The bird, a goose displayed with spread wings, represents progress. On the emblem, but not on the flag, red fruits placed above the head and under the wings of the goose represent productivity.
Ivan Sache, 17 December 2008


Santa Teresa de Jesús, Colegio


image by Ivan Sache, 04 July 2014

Colegio Santa Teresa de Jesús was established in 1934 in Fontibón (Bogotá) by seven nuns from the Capuchin Tertiary Sisters of the Holy Family, Margarita de Jericó, Maria Rosa de Santo Domingo, Emilia de Urrao, Felicidad de Concepción, Trinidad de Yarumal, Cecilia de Yarumal and Catalina Carmona.
The flag of the institute is vertically divided blue-white. Blue is a symbol of science while white is a symbol of virtue.
Source: http://www.colsanter.edu.co/bandera.html
Ivan Sache, 04 July 2014


Institución Educativa Santa Teresa


image by Ivan Sache, 27 July 2010

Institución Educativa Santa Teresa is located in Argelia, Department of Antioquia.
The flag and arms of the institute are painted on a building's wall, as shown on a photography available on the Argelia municipal website. The flag must be (no real flag seen) horizontally divided light blue-red-black. The colours of the flag are taken from the arms (or the reverse). Source: http://www.argelia-antioquia.gov.co/sitio.shtml?apc=m1G12--&x=2202378
Ivan Sache
, 27 July 2010


Santa Teresa de Jesús, Institución Educativa


image by Ivan Sache, 31 January 2004

"Institución Educativa 'Santa Teresa de Jesús'" was founded in 1909 or 1911 in Armenia, Department of Antioquia, as "Colegio Oficial de Señoritas".
The flag of the institute, as described on the website of the institute, is vertically divided green-yellow-green.
Green represents hope.
Yellow represents the resources and strength of creative thinking.
The two green stripes also represent the natural environment while yellow represents bright mornings, with confidence into a future full of harmony and equity.
Ivan Sache, 31 January 2004


Santa Teresita, Escuela Normal Superior - Lorica


image by Ivan Sache, 8 January 2004

"Escuela Normal Superior Santa Teresita" was founded on 25 February 1940 in Lorica, Department of Córdoba, by nuns of the Community of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, led by sister Angélica.
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically and described on the website of the institute, is horizontally divided white-coffee brown. White represents loyalty, purity, clear thinking, peace, innocence and simplicity. Coffee brown is the colour of the Theresian doctrine, with its virtues of value, strength, prudence, gravity, heroic immolation, and generous and constant empowerment.
Ivan Sache, 8 January 2004 and 7 January 2008


Santa Teresita, Escuela Normal Superior - Sabanalarga


image by Ivan Sache, 04 July 2011

"Escuela Normal Superior Santa Teresita" was founded in 1944 in Sabanalarga, Department of Antioquia, by nuns of the Community of St. Therese of the Child Jesus.
The flag of the institute, as shown graphically on the website of the institute, is horizontally divided white-coffee brown. The same flag  is used by other institutes managed by the same congregation (for instance, another "Escuela Normal Superior Santa Teresita", located in Lorica.
Source: http://norsupsate.blogspot.com/2009_03_12_archive.html>
Ivan Sache, 04 July 2011


Santa Teresita de las Nieves, Colegio


image by Ivan Sache, 5 November 2010

Colegio Santa Teresita was founded on 7 February 1954 in the borough of Las Nieves, town of Baranquilla, by the nuns of the Community of St. Therese of the Child Jesus.
The flag of the institute is shown on the institute's website as horizontally divided white-coffee brown.
Source: http://www.colsatebarranquilla.com/start/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21&Itemid=49
The given meaning of the flag is exactly the same as for the very same flag used by another Theresian institute, Escuela Normal Superior San Teresita, Lorica.
It is therefore possible that several Theresian institutes, if not all, use the same "reneric" flag.
Ivan Sache
, 5 November 2010