The armorial bearings of Mother Eustochium Lee, OSB the recently elected Abbess of the community of Pax Cordis Iesu at St. Cecilia Abbey, Ryde, Isle of Wight in the UK. She receives the abbatial blessing today.
New Abbess at Ryde
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Monthly Archives: April 2022
Attributed Arms of Jesus Christ
Attributed arms are Western European coats of arms given retrospectively to persons real or fictitious who died before the start of the age of heraldry in the latter half of the 12th C. Arms were assigned to the knights of the round table, to Biblical figures, to Roman and Greek heroes, and to kings and popes who had not historically borne arms.
The same is true even for divine beings. Arms have been attributed to Jesus Christ by a number of different people. One such example is below:
This image, which I found on the internet, contains many of the traditional elements of arms attributed to Christ. These consist mainly of the instruments of His passion and death. It is, necessarily, rather over-crowded and busy but still rendered well and arranged in a manner that can be called traditionally heraldic. Many would, perhaps, prefer a version like the one depicted below:
May these holy days prove spiritually fruitful to all those who observe them. May you have a Happy Easter!
Archbishop Fabre of Louisville
On March 30 the Most Rev. Shelton Fabre (58), a priest of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and formerly Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana was installed as the 12th Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky.
His armorial bearings (below) depict the arms of the See impaled with his personal coat of arms assumed at the time that he became Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans in 2006. I don’t much care for the arms of the See of Louisville but that’s just tough luck for me. There is nothing wrong with them. Rather it’s a matter of personal taste. The same is true for the Archbishop’s personal arms: I don’t happen to care for them but that’s just my tough luck. Again, no egregious heraldic errors. I do think it is a shame that both fields are azure as there is little contrast between the two impalements but that’s life.
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