Joseph Casimir Plagens

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JOSEPH CASIMIR PLAGENS

Born : January 29, 1880
Deceased : March 31, 1943

Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, 1924-1935
Bishop of Marquette, 1935-1940
Bishop of Grand Rapids, 1940-1943

Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit	Bishop of Marquette
Bishop of Grand Rapids

Official blazon

(personal arms) Paly of seven, silver and gules, the second pale charged with a silver lily; on a chief gules a silver eagle issuing.

Origin/meaning

As common in US episcopal heraldry, the arms show the arms of the diocese impaled with the personal arms of the bishop.

Bishop Plagens' arms may be derived from the root-word plaga, which suggested the division of the field of his arms into seven stripes; his two name patrons, St. Joseph and St. Casimir, are indicated: the first by the lily, the second by the silver eagle on red of the old royal Polish arms (his family originates from Poland).

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