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===Official blazon=== | ===Official blazon=== | ||
Arms impaled. Dexter: Quarterly, Gu/es and Or, a reversed Latin cross throughout; within the quarters: I, a castle tower; II, a lion rampant; Ill, an Indian arrowhead; IV, a halberd, all counterchanged. Sinister: Or a trefoil Azure; issuant from a base barry wavy of four Argent and of the second, three hills also of the second; in dexter chief a hurt charged a cross of the field.<br> | |||
Motto : Pro Amicis Suis | |||
===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
As common in US episcopal heraldry, the arms show the arms of the diocese impaled with the personal arms of the bishop. | |||
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The Motto of Bishop Robert Lynch is "Pro Amicis suis" meaning "For His friends", taken from the Gospel of St. John (15:13). This phrase expresses the deep belief and faith that to truly be a friend of Christ we too must be willing to lay down our lives for our friends as He did for us. | |||
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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