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What does fasces mean?

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  1. A Roman symbol of judicial authority consisting of a bundle of wooden sticks, with an axe blade embedded in the centre; used also as a symbol of fascism
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In the centre of our logo is the first rune with 2 fasces next to it.
On the right stands the long, architecturally austere, central building, whose only decoration is supplied by the fasces, emblems of the cardinal, in the upper band under the dormer windows.
On one side of it is a bust of the general, and on the other a trophy of English arms surrounding a fasces.
The fasces of Italian fascism are nicked from the fasces carried by the lictors, symbolising the unity of the Roman people.
Both depict Liberty figures standing with their fasces and bonnets supported on staffs before key locations in Rome, as if claiming them as their own.
It is a representation of the Roman fasces in ebony, and is surmounted by a globe and an eagle in silver.

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