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Adversaire pin - 10-pk
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Rhinestone dragon brooch hand-painted to match the coloring of our parade dragon, Adversaire, on a St. Margaret playing card. On the back, it says Adversaire 2026. Packaged in a set of 10. Please note that unfortunately the tariffs have significantly increased our price on these so we have now packaged them in sets of only 10, not 20 as we usually offer. Why do we have a dragon in our historical parade? As the back of the playing card reads: "Under orders from God, Joan of Arc (1412-1431) led the losing French army to a comeback victory against the English. Joan heard God’s voice through 3 personas: Saint Michael the Archangel, Saint Catherine of the Wheel, and Saint Margaret the Virgin. Legend says brave Margaret (300 A.D.) refused a Roman governor’s marriage proposal because he asked her to renounce Christianity. The angry governor had her swallowed by a dragon, but Margaret escaped alive when her cross irritated the dragon’s innards. Ultimately, her story was declared apocryphal, but in Joan’s day, Margaret was a popular saint. In old stories, dragons symbolize the devil, and our dragon’s name is “Adversaire,” French for "The Adversary."
