Dennis Gerard Walsh
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Born: July 16, 1965 Bishop of Davenport, 2024-present |
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| English | Argent a chevron the upper edge raguly between three crosses bottony fitchée sable, impaling Azure on a pale a argent another pale indented at the base gules charged with an estoile of eight points, a garb, and a pheon inverted all Or. |
Origin/meaning
The Bishop’s personal coat of arms employs the colors of the arms of his home Diocese of Toledo: blue, silver and red. On the center silver pale appears a slightly narrower red stripe drawn with points at the bottom. This stripe represents the Oriflamme, the battle standard borne by the King of France from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. In peacetime, the Oriflamme was kept in the Abbey of Saint Denis in Paris, and according to legend its red color came from its being soaked in the blood of the bishop Saint Denis - Bishop Walsh’s baptismal patron saint - when the saint was martyred in Paris around the year 250.
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