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All the Islands are beautiful, but this last appears to
exceed all others in beauty. (entry
from Christopher Columbus's log book, 1493)
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 The
flag that the Legislative Assemble adopted in 1952
as the official emblem of Puerto Rico is an old flag
designed by a group of patriotic in 1895. It has a
white solitary star that his the symbol of the Free
Associated State and this stare rests on a blue
triangle that with its three tips evokes the
integrity of the republican government and
represented by the three powers: the legislative,
the executive and the judicial. The three red
strips symbolize the vital blood that nourishes
those three powers of Government, which perform
independent and separated functions. The
freedom of the individual y and rights of men
maintain in balance the powers and the essential
mission represents the two white strips. |
 The
Shield of Arms of the Free Associated State of
Puerto Rico was granted by King Fernando and is the
only one that has been in official use since the
Hispanic-American conquest. It was confirmed
and adopted bye means of Law 7 and 8 of August of
1952, according to amended by law 142 of the 3 of
June of 1976. The Real Certificate describes
the blazon like "a green shield and within a silver
lamb upon a red book and crossed by a flag with a
cross in its vane as it brings devysa of Sanct Joan
and lion trimming castles and flags and crosses of
Iherusalen and by devysa an F. and a Y. with its
crowns and yokes and arrows and a round signboard
the following way: Joanes est nomen ejus". The
predominant color is the green one. This color
was used in the beginning of the Christian era with
reference to San Juan, Baptist, like a symbol of
grass or vegetation when he preached in the desert
forest of Judea. The silver lamb indicates the
color white and pure that corresponds to the figure
of the Lamb of God, the Agnus Dei, indentified with
Jesus Christ. The red book represents the book
of the Seven Seals or Apocalypse of the Apostle San
Juan. The castle and lions are symbols of the
colonizing kingdom. The flags and crosses of
Jerusalem are symbols of San Juan Baptist, name
given to the Island, and invariably united with the
name of Jerusalem. The F. and the Y. refer to
the names of the monarchs Fernando and Ysabel; and
the beam of the arrow and the yoke represents
ideograms for the initials of the names of the
Catholic Kings F. and Y. The beams of the
arrows consist of the mysterious number seven, that
is repeated symbolically in the Apocalypse. |
 The
figures that appear in the Seal of Puerto Rico are
inspired by the figures which appears in the shield
that the Spanish Crown granted to Puerto Rico, at
the beginning of Century XVI. Besides its
rigorous heraldic symbolism, we can interpret it
this way: in the green center appears a lamb that is
used to represent the peace and confraternity.
Above the lamb there is a beam of an arrow
"symbolic" of the creative force. Over this appears
a yoke that represents the union and harmony of the
efforts for great profits. The letters F and
I, initials of Fernando and Isabel, Kings of Spain
when Puerto Rico was discovered, evoke their great
pioneering effort. The inscription says: "Joannes
Est Nomem ejus" John is his name, because Puerto
Rico was originally called Island of San Juan
Baptist. In the white edge appears the towers
of Castilla, Lions of the Lion, Crosses of Jerusalem
and Spanish flags that evokes the old hispanic
cultural roots of Puerto Rico and form a frame to
the central symbols of the seal. The spanish
flag within the seal is not the same as the one in
the shield. The first has two of its quadrants
representative flags of Castilla-Lion-Granada and
Aragon. The second is the already well-known
flag of Catilla-Aragon. |
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The Hymn
The Earth of Borinquen
Where I was born,
is a flowery garden
of magican beauty.
An always clear sky
that serves as canopy
and gives placid cooing
the waves on its feet.
When at his beaches arrived Columbus
he exclaimed, full on admiration
Oh! Oh! Oh! This is the pretty earth
that I looked for.
Its borinquen the daughter
the daughter of the sea and the sun
of the sea and the sun,
of the sea and the sun,
of the sea and the sun,
of the sea and the sun. |
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