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Flag of Traditionalist Catholics in Belgium - Image by Tomislav Todorović, 22 August 2026
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Flag of Traditionaliste Catholics in Belgium - Image located by Tomislav Todorović, 22 August 2026
In Belgium, Traditionalist Catholics use the national flag with a red
Sacred Heart in the center of the yellow stripe. The earliest
currently recorded appearance was at a joint meeting of French and
Belgian Traditionalist Catholics, organized by the NGO named Belgium
and Christianity (Belgique et Chrétienté), which took place on 15/16
November 2008. [photos from its website, no longer online].
The flag was seen again, among numerous French Traditionalist Catholic
flags, in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Nord department, France at a protest of
Christian fundamentalists which took place on 2011-11-24 [source: article in 20 Minutes newspaper website].
It has
also been carried by Belgians who have been participating in the
Chartres pilgrimage in France (pèlerinage de Chartres, see on Wikipedia), also called
the Pilgrimage of Christendom (Pèlerinage de Chrétienté), which
takes place every year around the Pentecost, with the start at
Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral and the end at Notre-Dame de Chartres
cathedral.
Tthe flag presence was recorded at the pilgrimages in
2017 [photo in L'Écho Républicain newspaper], 2024 [photo in La Vie magazine website], 2025 [photo in CathoBel website - report from the 2025 pilgrimage to Chartres] and 2026 [photo in CathoBel website - report from the 2026 pilgrimage to Chartres; photo from the 2026 pilgrimage at Facebook]. In Belgium, it has been
carried by the participants of the Foy-Notre-Dame pilgrimage (pèlerinage de Foy-Notre-Dame), which was established in the Namur
province in 1994 [photo on Diocese of Namur website]. The shape of the Sacred Heart has varied
somewhat through the years, as did the shades of yellow and red, but
the ratio was invariably 2:3.
Tomislav Todorović, 22 August 2026
Variant flag
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Variant flag of Traditionalist Catholics in Belgium - Image by Tomislav Todorović, 22 August 2026
On a less used variant of the flag, the yellow field is much wider
than the other two and the size of the Sacred Heart enlarged, while
the ratio seems to have remained unchanged. This flag was seen, along
with the "default" one, at the Chartres pilgrimage in 2024 [photo in La Vie magazine website].
Tomislav Todorović, 22 August 2026
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