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The municipality of Bom Jesus (2,526 inhabitants in 2010; 6,360 ha) is located 550 km west of Florianópolis.
Ivan Sache, 1 November 2021
The municipal flag of Bom Jesus is composed of five colors.
Median green
is the color of the flag of Santa Catarina state. Green is a symbol of
everyone's aspiration to the municipality's development and progress.
Yellow
is the symbol of the municipality's resources - mineral, animal, plant -
contained aboveground and underground.
Red is a symbol of force, bravery and
courage.
Celestial blue represents the sky, hydromineral springs, the rivers
and their tributaries.
The municipal coat of arms is inscribed in a white
circle placed in the flag's center.
https://www.bomjesus.sc.gov.br/cms/pagina/ver/codMapaItem/18944
Municipal website
The coat of arms of Bom Jesus has the following
symbolic interpretation.
The Samnite shield, used to represent the arms of
Bom Jesus, was the first style of shield introduced to Portugal by French
influence; inherited by Brazilian heraldry, it evokes the colonizing race and
main builder of the Brazilian nation.
The municipal coat of arms has also
the following meaning regarding its shape, colors and details.
The shield is
divided by a cross traced in its center, with a bust of Jesus Christ clad in
yellow and his humble heart symbolizing the devotion of people of Bom Jesus, who
adopted his name for the town. The image of Christ is inscribed in a celestial
blue circle placed on the center of the cross, brown and black and outlined in
white, the main heraldic identification of the Christian religiosity.
The
upper left quarter features a red tractor plowing the fertile and productive
soil, on a blue sky symbolizing one of the main tools of Bom Jesus' farmers.
The lower left quarter features tobacco drying workshops, symbolizing the
building where products of tobacco cultivation are processed. This represents
one of the main sources of income.
The lower right quarter features an
hydro-electric power plant, the barrage established on river Chapecó, and
pylons. The camping place represents a place of leisure and tourism in the
municipality. In the same quarter, trees represent reforestation and
preservation of the forests and natural environment, on a limpid and stainless
sky.
The shield is surrounded by two maize plants each with two ripening
cobs, a tobacco plant on the right and a bean plant and wheat spikes on the
left, the main sources of income for Bom Jesus.
Beneath the shield, a red
scroll inscribed with the municipality's date of creation, "19/07" at one end,
and the emancipation year, "1995", at the other end. In the center, the toponym
"BOM JESUS - SC", letters and numbers in white.
The mural crown
surmounting the shield is a universal domain's symbol, argent (white) with three
towers represented in perspective view. It symbolizes rule, emancipation and
struggle for the new municipality's development. The red open gates refer to the
struggle for freedom with equal participation of all citizens.
https://www.bomjesus.sc.gov.br/cms/pagina/ver/codMapaItem/18945
Municipal website
Photo
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bandeira_bom_jesus_sc.jpg
Ivan Sache, 1 November 2021
