Sant Mateu de Bages
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SANT MATEU DE BAGES
Region : Catalonia
Province : Barcelona
Official blazon
Escut caironat: de gules, un cap de jove d'argent nimbat d'or ixent d'un vol abaixat d'argent i un llibre obert d'or carregat de les lletres L i G de sable, una a cada pàgina, ressaltant de sota del cap, acompanyat a la punta d'un card de 3 flors d'or i d'una cèrvola d'argent posats en faixa: el peu d'argent, un lleó de gules coronat d'or i armat de sable. Per timbre una corona mural de poble.
Origin/meaning
These arms have been officially granted on 14th November 1985.
The angel with the book symbolizes St. Matthew the Evangelist, the local patron saint, as writer of the Gospel (with the letters L and G, the initials for "Liber Generationis"). The local castle (11th century) belonged, since the 13th century, to the Boixadors (family represented here by their arms, a hind Argent on Gules), and later to the families Cardona (represented by a thistle Or on Gules taken from their arms) and Peguera (symbolized by their arms, a crowned lion Gules on Argent).
Literature : Image taken from Wikipedia; background from Enric Fontvila, Barcelona.