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In the upper portion of the shield, gold and the lion are derived from the | In the upper portion of the shield, gold and the lion are derived from the arms of Cardinal [[Theodore Edgar McCarrick]], whom Bishop Farrell assists as an auxiliary bishop. The lower portion of the lion in gold derives from the Irish clan of O’Farrell. In this instance, blue has been substituted for the green of the O’Farrell Arms, to honor Our Lady of Lourdes, upon whose feast Bishop Farrell received ordination in the episcopate at the hands of the Cardinal Archbishop of Washington. | ||
In the base of the shield is a silver mound of rock, symbolic of Bishop Farrell’s patron, Saint Kevin (d.c. 618). After ordination Saint Kevin settled as a hermit at Glendalough (Co. Wicklow, Ireland), in a cave called "St. Kevin’s Bed" formerly a Bronze Age rock tomb. | In the base of the shield is a silver mound of rock, symbolic of Bishop Farrell’s patron, Saint Kevin (d.c. 618). After ordination Saint Kevin settled as a hermit at Glendalough (Co. Wicklow, Ireland), in a cave called "St. Kevin’s Bed" formerly a Bronze Age rock tomb. | ||