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===Official blazon=== | ===Official blazon=== | ||
*(personal half) Gules, a tower argent; on a chief of the second a lion passant of the first. | |||
===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 Bishop's arms are symbolic for his name, which means the governor or captain of a stronghold in Dutch, hence the heraldic " tower". The lion is that of his patron, Saint Jerome. | |||
The achievement is completed with the heraldic insignia of a prelate of the rank of bishop. | |||
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