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The Symbol of the Rose in The Middle Ages

Dec 7, 2025

Roses as Symbols

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We’re in the year 1230, deep in the Middle Ages. In France, Guillaume de Lorris begins Le Roman de la Rose—a dreamlike allegory written decades before Dante’s Divina Commedia. In those times, people didn’t aspire to fame or influence. They aspired to spiritual perfection, to earning love as a form of inner completion. A true…
Why is the Rose the “Queen of Flowers”?

Aug 18, 2025

Roses as Symbols

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Is the rose truly the most beautiful flower? In many cultures, this question has been asked for centuries. In Hindu mythology, there is a story in which the gods debated whether the lotus or the rose was the most beautiful flower. Though the lotus became the enduring religious symbol of purity and spiritual awakening, it…