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+{{uk}}'''{{uc:{{PAGENAME}}}}'''
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 Country: [[United Kingdom]]<br>
-Campus/location : [[Cambridge]]
+Campus/location: [[Cambridge]]
 [[File:cam-corpuschristi.jpg|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]]
-====Official blazon====
+===Official blazon===
 Quarterly gules and azure, in the first and fourth quarters a pelican in its piety, and in the second and third three lily flowers slipped and leaved all argent.
-====Origin/meaning====
+===Origin/meaning===
 The arms were officially granted on December 23, 1570.
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+Corpus Christi College was founded in 1352 by the Cambridge Guild of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary. The arms thus show a pelican in its piety (for the body of Christ, Corpus Christi) and in the second and third three lily-flowers slipped and leaved all argent as a symbol for St. Mary.
+{|align="center"
+|align="center"|[[File:cam-corpuschristi.woc.jpg|center|300 px|Coat of arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms on a [[Wills's - Arms of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges|tobacco card]], (1922)
+|}
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