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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. | |||
White-blue per fess and the pile, with a star, all counterchanged are based on the arms of the [[Archdiocese of Philadelphia]] where the bishop started as auxiliarian bishop. | |||
The upper half shows symbols for the emblem of the Congrgation of the Most Holy Redeemer, which are taken from the arms of the bishop St. [[John Nepomucene Neumann]], 4th bishop of Philadelphia. Its recalls bishop Cistones devotion to this bishop. The M is for the Blessed Virgin Mary. The lily is here for Saint-Joseph. | |||
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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