Michael William Hyle
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Born: October 13, 1901 Bishop of Wilmington, 1960-1967 |
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| English | Impaled. Dexter: Gules semé of crosses botonny fitchy argent, a lion rampant or (See of Wilmington); Sinister: Argent, on a fess between three mullets azure, a fish naiant of the field (Hyle). Motto: Quis ut Deus? |
Origin/meaning
As common in US episcopal heraldry, the arms show the arms of the diocese impaled with the personal arms of the bishop.
A certain Irish Hyle family bears a silver shield charged with a black fess, between three mullets (stars of five points) also in black. These arms were used to symbolise the last name of the bishop and have been differenced in tincture and by the addition of a charge to make them peculiar to the bishop. Black has been replaced by blue that the Marian colors, blue and silver, might prevail on the Bishop's shield in the centennial of the apparitions of Our Lady at Lourdes, the year of the Bishop's appointment to the hierarchy.
A fish from the arms of a certain Irish McClosky family has been charged on the bar to symbolise the name of the prelate's mother.
The motto: Quis ut Deus? which means "Who is like unto God?" is Latin for the Hebrew Mi-cha-el, the baptismal name of the Bishop.
Literature: Brassard, 1962
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