Michael William Hyle

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MICHAEL WILLIAM HYLE

Born : October 13, 1901
Deceased : December 26, 1967

Bishop of Wilmington, 1960-1967

Official blazon

Impaled. Dexter: Gules semé of crosses botonny fitchy argent, a lion rampant or (See of Wilmington); Sinister: Argent, on a fess between three mullets azure, a fish naiant of the field (Hyle).
Motto: Quis ut Deus?

Origin/meaning

As common in US episcopal heraldry, the arms show the arms of the diocese impaled with the personal arms of the bishop.

The Irish Hyle family bears a silver shield charged with a black fess, between three mullets (stars of five points) also in black. These arms have been differenced in tincture and by the addition of a charge to make them peculiar to the Bishop. Black has been replaced by blue that the Marian colors, blue and silver, might prevail on the Bishop's shield in the centennial of the apparitions of Our Lady at Lourdes, the year of the Bishop's appointment to the hierarchy.

A fish from the arms of the Irish McClosky family has been charged on the fess to honor the Prelate's mother. The McCloskys of County Derry, a branch of the O'Kanes, are descended from Blosky O'Kane. All armigerous branches of the McCloskeys bear fish on their arms.

The motto: Quis ut Deus? urhich means "Who is like unto God?" is Latin for the Hebrew Mi-cha-el, the baptismal name of the Bishop.