William Thomas Larkin

WILLIAM THOMAS LARKIN

Born: March 31, 1923
Deceased: November 4, 2006

Bishop of Saint Petersburg, 1979-1988

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Arms impaled. Dexter: Quarterly, gules and or, a reversed latin cross throughout, within the quarters; I.a castle tower; II. a lion rampant; III. an indian arrowhead; IV. a halberd, all counterchanged. Sinister: Chequy ermine and gules; on a cross or an abbot's crozier sable; on a chief of the fourth, a torch of the third upon an open volume argent.
Motto: "Omnia per ipsum" |- |English | blazon wanted |}

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 personal arms of Bishop Larkin are based on the two branches of the Larkin family. One of the branches employs arms that are on a field of ermine and the other branch uses arms that are chequy of red and silver. In the sense of Ecumenism and true Christian unity these two devices have been joined together to form the "field" of the arms of Bishop Larkin.

On a gold cross, which signifies the salvation of mankind that was attained for us by the death of Our Blessed Lord on the cross, and to which Bishop Larkin has dedicated his life, is a simple abbot's crozier. The crozier, which is in the traditional heraldic color of an abbot, black, is for Saint William, His Excellency's baptismal patron, who was an abbot.

The chief contains a gold torch, of scholastic knowledge, on an open book, the Book of Revelations. These conjoined symbols are to honor Bishop Larkin's second baptismal and chosen patron, Saint Thomas Aquinas, who is respected for having been one of the greatest scholastic philosophers and theologians that has ever been given to The Church. The Book of Revelations and the field upon which it sits are silver and black, respectively, which are the colors of the Order of Preachers, the Dominicans, which is the order of which Saint Thomas Aquinas was a member.

The motto "OMNIA PER IPSUM" is Latin for "ALL THINGS THROUGH HIM." This phrase is taken from Saint Paul's Epistle to the Phillippians (Chapter 4, Verse 13) and it typifies His Excellency's, and all Christians', belief that all that we receive comes to us through Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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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