Daniel Ernesto Flores

DANIEL ERNESTO FLORES

Born : August 28, 1961
Deceased :

Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, 2006-2010
Bishop of Brownsville, 2010-Present

Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit

Bishop of Brownsville

Official blazon

(personal arms) Per bend Gules and Argent; a bend wavy, party per bend wavy Or and Azure; to chief sinister a monstrance of the third, the host of the second, and to base dexter a rose of the first barbed and seeded Proper.

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 bend wavy represents the two sides of the Rio Grande where Bishop Flores' family had their roots. The upper portion of the design and river are in the traditional Hispanic colors of red and gold and on the red field is a golden monstrance a classic representation of the Holy Eucharist, the Corpus Christi. This charge is employed to honor the Diocese of Corpus Christi where Bishop Flores has served, most recently as Rector of the Corpus Christi Cathedral, and that The Eucharist is the central mystery of Catholicism and the core of Priesthood in God's Service.

The lower portion of the design, the river and field are blue and white to honor the Blessed Virgin Mary in her title of Our Lady of Guadalupe, represented by the red rose, with green barbs and seeds, placed on this field.

For his motto, His Excellency, Bishop Flores uses the Latin phrase, "VERBUM MITTITUR SPIRANS AMOREM." By the use of these words from the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas (Prima Pars, Qn. 43; Art. 5, ad 2), he expresses that as a bishop his entire ministry is to tell the world that "the Word is sent breathing forth love."

The achievement is completed with the heraldic insignia of a prelate of the rank of bishop by instruction of the Holy See, of March 1969, confirmed in March 2001.

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