 Hence, in gratitude to Jesus, he incorporated five shields arranged in a cross—representing his divine-led victory over the five enemy kings—with each one carrying Christ's five wounds in the form of silver bezants.The sum of all bezants (doubling the ones in the central shield) would give thirty, symbolizing Judas Iscarot's thirty pieces of silver".According to the Legislative Assembly of Madeira's reasoning, published in the Regional Decree n. º 30/78/M of 12 September, which adopted the current flag, the similarity of designed was justified on the following grounds the Madeirans had "a vigorous reaction, demarcated in relation to everything that was objectively wicked [PREC]."