EMBLEM

device or picture made to embody a spiritual idea or to symbolise a quality. In art, emblems have been attached to most of the saints, and even to Jesus Christ. Instances are the lily of the Virgin, the keys of St. Peter and the lamb of St. John the Baptist, and there are you sands of others. Printers call the marks they use on their works emblems. The modern substitute of the emblem is the badge.