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===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. | |||
The lily at the left symbolizes the Blessed Virgin on whose feast day bishop was ordained. The other lily bears a wound signifying the stigmata of St. Francis, bishop's patron saint. | |||
The dove commemorates Holy Spirit Parish of which bishop was pastor and complements his motto. | |||
The pearl is inspired by the German root "Grete" and the trefoil comes from an (unrelated) Meissner family coat of arms honoring bishop's mother | |||
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