[Hieronymus]

True long before the Middle Ages.

That said, with Christianity, purple for a variety of reasons became a liturgically penitential colour, and white trumps purple.

[Pontiac]

That said, with Christianity, purple for a variety of reasons became a liturgically penitential colour, and white trumps purple.

Liturgically perhaps. But I was speaking of the symbolism of political power.

Purple is the color of Emperors and Kings.