The first historical coat of arms of Chile, adopted in 1812, featured a column with a globe and three stars around it; in 1819 the round medallion was supplemented with laurel branches and spears

This coat of arms is almost identical to the emblem of the Waldensians, named after their founder Peter Waldo, a Calvinist sect in Europe that rejects the symbolism of the cross, icons and churches. Although the first Waldensians are believed to have arrived in South America only in the 1870s, settling in Uruguay and Argentina.

The Waldensian emblem bears the Latin motto “and the light shineth in darkness”, from the Gospel of John 1:5.

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