 Although no specimens or images are preserved, a "stanica" was probably a cloth draped vertically from a horizontal crosspiece attached to a wooden pole or spear, resembling the Roman "vexillum".It was both a religious and military symbol; the "stanice" were kept either inside or outside pagan temples in peacetime and were taken to war as military insignia.With Poland's conversion to Christianity in the late 10th century, the pagan "stanice" were probably Christianized by replacing pagan symbols with Christian ones such as images of patron saints, or a Chi-Rho or dove symbolizing the Holy Spirit.