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 ===Origin/meaning===
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+As common in US episcopal heraldry, the arms show the arms of the diocese impaled with the personal arms of the bishop.
+Thecoat of arms of the Most Reverend James Vincent Casey, second Archbishop of Denver, consists of a silver Latin cross, interlaced with a silv r crescent, and a chevron, the tip of which points be· tween two eagles' heads.
+The silver Latin cross is to the viewer's left. It and the crescent, also in silver, appear on a field of red. The crescent denotes the Archdiocese of Denver.
+The chevron, to the viewer's right, contains two small gold Latin crosses. The chevron
+·	and eagles' heads are in red. The background for this por• lion of the coat of arms is in silver.
+SJGNIFJCANC E
+The entire coat of arms is composed of the shield with
+clothed with the sun, and the moon was under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.• (l 2:1)
+The impalement, on the viewer's right, bears the per onal arms of Archbishop Ca sey, composed of the arms of the Casey family of Ireland, and "difference,r by custom in prelatical heraldry, to make them peculiar to the Archbishop.
+The original Casey arms consist of a red chevron be tween three eagles' heads, in red with jagged edges, on a silver field.
+On the Archbishop's coat of arms, beneath the  chevron, the third eagle's head  has been omitted so that an es cnllop shell, the cognizance of St. James the Greater, might be emblazoned for the baptis• ma ! patron of the Bishop.
+Mo·rro
+The motto, "Nisi Dominus/' taken from Psalm 126, is translated, "Unless the Lord.H The full text is "Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build." A
+.mott o briefly expresses an ideal, a program of life and the spirit of the one who se lects it. By this motto the Archbishop expresses his con fidence in Almighty God, and the realization that nothing can be done without God's grace and blessing.
+The external ornaments of the coat of arms are composed of the green pontifical hat, with its ten tassels on each side, disposed in four rows, and the  precious  mitre,  the nr chie piscopa l cross with double traverse and the cro
+Pla ins 	P.57 its  charges, the  motto and  the
+external ornaments.
+Since St.  James was the first
+of  the  apostolic  martyrs, the
+sier, all in gold.
+These are the presently ac
+...............P5. 5
+The arms are simple, yet
+escallop is tinctured in reo,
+cepted heraldic trappings of a
+.................P.
+most significant The State in which the Archdiocese is Joe• ated is expressed by the red tincture of the field, for the
+the liturgical color  appropri ate for one who has shed his blood for Christ.
+prelate of the rank of Arch· bishop. Before 1870, the pon• tifica l hat was worn at sol•' emn cavalcades held in con
+Spanish  word  for  red  is "colo•
+rado.• The silver Latin cross P.61 is  an   heraldic  ve,,.ion  of  the snowy figure on Mount Holy
+Crose that so impresses trav elers in the area.
+The crescent interlaced with
+mdBishso••.• P.63 the   cross  signifies  the   Im
+maculate Conception, the title of the Cathedral. This lunar symbol is derived from the Apocalypse: "And a great sign appcnred in heaven; a woman
+The j!old Lstin cross, twice
+repeated for symmetry on the chevron, is derh•ed from the coat of arms of His Excellen cy, the Most Reverend Leo Bini, who, as Archbishop of Dubuque, consecrated Arch bishop Casey as Auxiliary Bishop of Lincoln in 1957. Archbishop Casey was born, baptized, and labored as a priest for 17 years in this archdiocese.
+The achievement is completed with the heraldic insignia of a prelate of the rank of bishop.
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