St John, Bailiwick of Jersey, Channel Islands

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image by Jens Pattke, 8 May 2010
based on: http://members.societe-jersiaise.org/geraint/jerriais/paraiss2.html

• Description of the flag

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• Bailiwick of Jersey
• United Kingdom
• Société Jersiaise

Description of the flag

On http://www.jeron.je/thatwasjersey/StJohn.htm you can see the emblem of St John Parish, Jersey, used on a flag.
Dirk Schoenberger, 22 January 2004

What looks like a parish flag is shown outside a building on the St. John parish page (where a banner of the arms is also shown) - a bigger picture of it is shown at http://www.jeron.je/thatwasjersey/sjfiles/AF011big.jpg. It looks from this like each parish uses a banner of arms for its flag - in most cases just a symbol on a plain background.
James Dignan, 2 September 2005

Saint John (French language: Saint-Jean, Jèrriais: St Jean) is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey in the Channel Islands. The Maltese Cross is the emblem of the Knights of St John at Jerusalem (Knights Hospitallers). The stylised Maltese Cross is set on a green background to recognise the old name for the Parish church, St John of the Oaks, though the church was dedicated to John the Baptist.

The parish flag shows a silver Maltese Cross on a green background.
Jens Pattke, 8 May 2010