The symbolic meaning of color depends on time, country, culture, traditions and local circumstances. In the Missale Romanum (1570) colors were given a specific meaning, making it easier to recognize characters as Mary and Jesus, and to express emotions like love, suffering, holiness. Color was very helpful in understanding the scenes on mosaics, wall paintings, paintings, statues, icons and stained glass windows. The intensity of color is important; brilliant colors are positive, dull colors are negative. Note: the general symbolic meaning is in brackets ().
Beige; (sand, neutral).
Black; darkness, deepest mourning, deviation, sin.
Blue; deity, eternity, innocence: color of heaven, loyalty, Mary's color (melancholy, sincerity).
Brown; poverty, humility, earth (soundness, dull).
Gold; deity, wealth, (power).
Green; hope, growth, life, future.
Grey; world renunciation (neutral, security, wisdom, luxury, age).
Copper; (unshakable ness, 12.5 years anniversary).
Magenta; (cheerful, exiting, shocking).
Orange; (warmth, wealth, eroticism).
Pink; light breaking through, liturgical color on the third Sunday of Advent (Caudate) and the fourth Sunday of Lent, (Laetare) (soft tender love, happiness).
Purple; mourning, penance, fasting, submission.
Platinum; (70 years anniversary).
Purple; authority, royalty (sensuality, decadence).
Red; love, suffering, sacrifice (struggle, love, joy, passion, courage).
Silver; purity: silver can replace white (trust, 25 years anniversary).
White; joy, feast, truth, purity, liturgical color for the feasts of Christmas, Epiphany, Easter and the Easter period, used at baptisms, weddings and sometimes funerals. (joy, tenderness, love).
Yellow; light, lustre, glory, color of the sun, envy, treason (Easter, spring).
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