{"title":"Deus Vult Mini Patches (DVMP)","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"battle-flag-patch-miniature","title":"Battle Flag Patch (Miniature)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is a miniature patch, approximately 1x1 inches. Designed for more \u003c\/span\u003esubtle uses on clothing or gear. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatch comes backed with hook backing and a sew on loop patch. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beauregard's Tailor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67622756712579,"sku":"sku-51849430204694","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/2778\/5347\/files\/6DBDF9A2-BBF5-412E-B28F-21CD77551D3B.png?v=1790778200"},{"product_id":"missouri-battle-flag-morale-patch-miniature","title":"Missouri Battle Flag   Morale Patch (Miniature)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 9th Battalion Missouri Sharpshooters. Flags bearing the Roman cross first gained prominence among the Missouri regiments of General Price's Army of the West and then spread to the units within the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. During the struggle for Vicksburg, such flags were flown in profusion by the six Missouri regiments of Price's army and by units from other armies and states.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a miniature patch, approximately 1x.75 inches. Designed for more \u003c\/span\u003esubtle uses on clothing or gear. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beauregard's Tailor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67622756843651,"sku":"sku-51849425256726","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/2778\/5347\/files\/F1A4D686-DD82-4AB4-B7B6-969A637EE5C5.png?v=1790778202"},{"product_id":"dvlp-velcro-patch-accessory-x-carriger-crafted","title":"DVLP Velcro Patch Accessory X Carriger Crafted","description":"\u003cp\u003eHandcrafted velcro patch accessory to take your favorite patch on the go.  Does NOT include the patch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHolds any 1” x 1” velcro patch.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade from full grain leather.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNote: Apply leather conditioner to keychain every few months.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLapel pins and patches from: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deusvultlapelpins.com\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/deusvultlapelpins.com\/\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carriger Crafted","offers":[{"title":"Strap","offer_id":67626004480131,"sku":"sku-67610217381997","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"HK Clasp","offer_id":67626004512899,"sku":"sku-67610217414765","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/2778\/5347\/files\/55E0DBD2-D2E6-4A54-9E63-8C9789B29549.jpg?v=1790813262"},{"product_id":"chi-rho-mini-patch-1-velcro","title":"Chi Rho Mini Patch - 1\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is a 1\" x 1\" mini PVC patch with velcro backing + a sew on loop patch. Designed for more \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esubtle uses on clothing, hats, or gear, or on our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deusvultlapelpins.com\/products\/dvlp-velcro-patch-accessory-x-carriger-crafted\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ehandmade leather DVLP x Carriger Crafted Patch Accessory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Chi Rho is one of the oldest christograms (symbols that abbreviate the name of Christ). It joins the first two Greek letters of \u003cstrong\u003eΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003cem\u003eChristos\u003c\/em\u003e): \u003cstrong\u003eChi (Χ)\u003c\/strong\u003e, written like an X, and \u003cstrong\u003eRho (Ρ)\u003c\/strong\u003e, written like a P. The Rho's vertical stroke runs through the center of the Chi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (AD 312), Constantine received a heavenly sign. The historian Eusebius (\u003cem\u003eLife of Constantine\u003c\/em\u003e, I.28–31) says he heard the story from the emperor himself. He tells of a cross of light seen above the sun, with the words \u003cem\u003eἘν τούτῳ νίκα\u003c\/em\u003e, known in Latin as \u003cstrong\u003e\"In hoc signo vinces\"\u003c\/strong\u003e (\"In this sign, conquer\"). Eusebius also describes the labarum, a military standard topped by the Chi Rho.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/2778\/5347\/files\/Chi-Rho-page_480x480.webp?v=1791331890\" style=\"margin-right: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConstantine won this battle and legalized Christianity the next year with the Edict of Milan. The Chi Rho then spread across the Roman world on coins, helmets, imperial standards, sarcophagi, church mosaics, and household objects. It reached as far as Roman Britain, appearing in the Hinton St Mary mosaic and the wall paintings of Lullingstone villa. When Julian the Apostate tried to restore paganism (361–363), he removed it from the standards, a sign of how strongly it had come to represent the new Christian order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Chi Rho carried forward into medieval Christendom with its most celebrated expression in the Chi Rho page of the Book of Kells. There Irish monks turned Matthew 1:18, \"Now the birth of Christ...,\" into one of the most elaborate illuminations ever made. The whole page is devoted to the moment the Name enters the Gospel narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday the symbol still appears on altar frontals, vestments, church doors, and gravestones. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deus Vult Mini Patches","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67687710883971,"sku":null,"price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/2778\/5347\/files\/IMG_7777.jpg?v=1791335332"},{"product_id":"jerusalem-cross-mini-patch-1-red","title":"Jerusalem Cross Mini Patch - 1\" (Red)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a 1\" x 1\" mini PVC patch with velcro backing + a sew on loop patch. Designed for more subtle uses on clothing, hats, or gear, or on our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deusvultlapelpins.com\/products\/dvlp-velcro-patch-accessory-x-carriger-crafted\"\u003ehandmade leather DVLP x Carriger Crafted Patch Accessory\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Jerusalem Cross, also called the Crusader's Cross, is a large cross potent (a cross whose arms end in crossbars) surrounded by four smaller Greek crosses, one in each quadrant. Christian tradition has given the five crosses several meanings. The most common reading is the Five Wounds of Christ. Another sees Christ surrounded by the four Evangelists. A third sees the Gospel going out from Jerusalem to the four corners of the earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cross became the emblem of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, founded after the First Crusade captured the Holy City in 1099. Tradition links it to Godfrey of Bouillon, the Crusade's leader. He refused the title of king and instead called himself \u003cem\u003eDefender of the Holy Sepulchre\u003c\/em\u003e, saying he would not wear a crown of gold where Christ had worn a crown of thorns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe kingdom's coat of arms placed gold crosses on a silver field. This broke heraldry's most basic rule, which forbids placing metal on metal. Heralds explained it as a deliberate exception, reserved for the one kingdom that held the place of Christ's death and Resurrection. Long after Jerusalem fell, the arms lived on in the heraldry of European monarchs who claimed the title King of Jerusalem, including the rulers of Cyprus, Naples, and Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Jerusalem Cross remained the mark of the Holy Land for centuries of pilgrims. The Franciscan friars entrusted with the holy sites adopted it. Today the symbol is carried by the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and appears in red on the flag of the nation of Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deus Vult Mini Patches","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67688123728003,"sku":null,"price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/2778\/5347\/files\/IMG_7780_cb37fe0f-c5bd-44f0-a0d5-303d7799ff32.jpg?v=1791333124"},{"product_id":"appeal-to-heaven-mini-patch-1","title":"Appeal to Heaven Mini Patch - 1\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a 1\" x 1\" mini PVC patch with velcro backing + a sew on loop patch. Designed for more subtle uses on clothing, hats, or gear, or on our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deusvultlapelpins.com\/products\/dvlp-velcro-patch-accessory-x-carriger-crafted\"\u003ehandmade leather DVLP x Carriger Crafted Patch Accessory\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Appeal to Heaven flag, also called the Pine Tree Flag, is one of the earliest banners of the American Revolution. It shows a green pine tree on a white field beneath the words \"An Appeal to Heaven.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe motto comes from John Locke's \u003cem\u003eSecond Treatise of Government\u003c\/em\u003e (1689). Locke argued that when rulers become tyrants and no earthly judge remains to settle the dispute, a people's only recourse is an appeal to Heaven. He drew the idea from Scripture. In Judges 11:27, Jephthah faces the Ammonite king and says, \"The LORD the Judge be judge this day.\" For the colonists, the phrase declared that their cause rested on God's justice, not merely on force of arms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pine tree was already a symbol of New England. It appeared on the Massachusetts pine tree shilling of 1652 and on colonial flags long before the war. It also carried a grievance. The Crown reserved the tallest New England pines as masts for the Royal Navy, and colonists were forbidden to cut them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn October 1775, George Washington outfitted a small fleet of armed schooners to intercept British supply ships. His military secretary, Colonel Joseph Reed, proposed that the vessels fly a flag with a white field, a tree in the middle, and the motto \"Appeal to Heaven.\" The following April, Massachusetts adopted the same design as the official flag of its state navy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday the Appeal to Heaven flag remains a reminder that America's founders placed their cause, and their rights, in the hands of God.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deus Vult Mini Patches","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67688301035651,"sku":null,"price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/2778\/5347\/files\/IMG_7778_3de5d5ae-849b-4808-93b1-7ad6614af328.jpg?v=1791334015"},{"product_id":"american-crusader-mini-patch-1","title":"American Crusader Mini Patch - 1\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a 1\" x 1\" mini PVC patch with velcro backing + a sew on loop patch. Designed for more subtle uses on clothing, hats, or gear, or on our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deusvultlapelpins.com\/products\/dvlp-velcro-patch-accessory-x-carriger-crafted\"\u003ehandmade leather DVLP x Carriger Crafted Patch Accessory\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis particular design was put together by our bro @RealJakeP. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Maltese Cross is an eight-pointed cross formed by four V-shaped arms meeting at the center. It is the emblem of the Knights Hospitaller, formally the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. Christian tradition holds that the eight points represent the eight Beatitudes from Christ's Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:3–10). They also came to represent the eight \u003cem\u003elangues\u003c\/em\u003e, or national divisions, that made up the order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe order began as a hospital for pilgrims in Jerusalem, run by a brotherhood under Blessed Gerard. After the First Crusade, Pope Paschal II recognized it as a religious order in 1113. The brothers took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and they soon took up arms to defend pilgrims and the Holy Land. They called the sick and poor \"our lords,\" and caring for them remained central to the order's identity alongside its military mission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the fall of the Crusader states, the knights moved their headquarters to Rhodes, where they held out against the Ottoman Turks for over two centuries. Suleiman the Magnificent finally drove them out in 1522. In 1530, Emperor Charles V granted them the island of Malta, which gave the cross its lasting name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1565, Suleiman sent a massive Ottoman fleet to take Malta. Grand Master Jean Parisot de Valette and a few hundred knights, with several thousand soldiers and Maltese defenders, withstood a siege of nearly four months. The Great Siege of Malta became one of the most celebrated defenses in Christian history, and the new capital built afterward was named Valletta in the Grand Master's honor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday the cross is carried by the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the Order of St John and its St John Ambulance service, and the nation of Malta itself. A version of it also serves as the emblem of many fire departments across the US. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deus Vult Mini Patches","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67688457764995,"sku":null,"price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/2778\/5347\/files\/IMG_7781_815af8f5-716a-44a1-985f-c9af68ac3860.jpg?v=1791334846"}],"url":"https:\/\/deusvultlapelpins.com\/collections\/mini-patches.oembed","provider":"Deus Vult Lapel Pins","version":"1.0","type":"link"}