Bleuñ-Brug (Cultural movement, Brittany, France)

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Flag of Bleuñ-Brug, two successive versions - Images by Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

• Presentation of Bleuñ-Brug
• Flag of Bleuñ-Brug
• Urz Goanag Breiz
• Bleimor

See also:

• Brittany (Traditional province, France)

Presentation of Bleuñ-Brug

Bleuñ-Brug (Breton, Heather Flower) was founded in 1905 by the priest Y.-V. Perrot to defend the Breton language and the Roman Catholic religion.

Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

Flag of Bleuñ-Brug

Bleuñ-Brug originally used a white flag with a black centered cross and seven ermine spots (4 + 3) in each of the four quarters.
The association also used a more specific flag, purple with a white Celtic cross inscribing an unusual geometrical ermine spot with a wide basis. Purple stood for heather, the Celtic cross for Christianity and Celtic culture, and the ermine spot for Brittany.
[P. Rault. Les drapeaux bretons de 1188 à nos jours [rau98]]

Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

Urz Goanag Breiz

Flag of Urz Goanag Breiz - Image by Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

Urz Goanag Breiz (Order of the Breton Hope) was a youth movement for Celtic revival founded in 1943 by Y.-V. Perrot and H. Caouissin, on the model of the Welsh movement Urdd Gobaith Cymru (Order of the Welsh Hope).
The flag of the order, designed by H. Caouissin, is similar to the second Bleuñ-Brug flag, purple being replaced by green to recall the Welsh origin of the movement. Rectangular and square flags were used.
[P. Rault. Les drapeaux bretons de 1188 à nos jours [rau98]]

Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

Bleimor

Flags of Bleimor, two versions - Images by Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

Founded on 9 January 1946 by P. Géraud-Keraod on the model of Urz Goanag Breiz, the scout movement Bleimor (Seadog) merged in 1962 with the the Federation of European Scouting.
The flag of Bleimor was green with a yellow circle and an off-centred black cross fimbriated white, the whole representing a Celtic cross. Rectangular as well as triangular flags were used.
The movement also used a white flag with a black cross voided through and seven black ermine spots in canton. The ermine spots had an unusual art déco pattern (a triangle, one vertical and two horizontal dashes).
[P. Rault. Les drapeaux bretons de 1188 à nos jours [rau98]]

Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999