Database: Broom

HUMILITY. In the year 1234, St. Louis of France, after the coronation of , chose the flower of this plant as the insignia of a new order of knighthood. The members of this order wore a chain composed of flowers of the Broom entwined with white enameled lillies, from which was suspended a gold cross with the inscription: Exaltat humiles - "He exalteth the humble."
- The Language of Flowers
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