The Huguenot cross is a Christian religious symbol originating in France and is one of the more recognizable and popular symbols of the French evangelical reformed faith. It is commonly found today as a piece of jewellery (often in gold or silver) or engraved on buildings connected with the Reformed Church in France, of which it represents the official logo.
It is sometimes asserted that the cross appeared for the first time during the Huguenot Wars (1562–1598) in the south of France.[citation needed] Bertrand Van Ruymbeke asserts instead that the Huguenot cross stands out as "the most revealing" of symbolic signs of latter-day Huguenot solidarity: "Although a Huguenot cross was indeed designed in Nîmes in the 1680s, never was it in France the symbole de reconnaissance it later became for the descendants of the Huguenot refugees in the last third of the nineteenth century" [1] Van Ruymbeke identifies the late 19th-century Huguenot revival as sharing characteristics with two of historian Eric Hobsbawm's three categories of "invented traditions":[2] First, "those establishing or symbolizing social cohesion or the membership of groups, real or artificial communities", and, second, "those whose main purpose [is] socialization, the inculcation of beliefs, value systems and conventions of behavior."[3]
Long after the revocation (1685) of the Edict of Nantes (1598), the Huguenot cross came into general use among 19th-century Huguenot descendants in countries where Huguenot refugees settled, as a sign of both identification with French Huguenot ancestry and confirmation of the wearer's faith.
In 1942, the Free French Protestants in Great Britain issued a badge that paired the Huguenot cross with the Cross of Lorraine, which had been taken up by the Free French Forces.[4]
^Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, "Minority survival: the Huguenot paradigm in France and the diaspora: from survival to revival", in Van Ruymbeke and Randy J. Sparks, eds. Memory and Identity: the Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora (University of South Carolina) 2003:16.
^Hobsbawm, "Introduction: Inventing traditions", in Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds. The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge University Press) 1983:9, noted in Van Ruymbeke 2003:16 note 57.
^Hobsbawm quoted in Van Ruymbeke, eo. loc..
^Rev. R.C. Broughton, "Virginibus Puerisque. Resistez", contributed to "In the Study", The Expository Times, 53.12 (1942:371) (on-line text).
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