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|align="center"|[[File:Boland.rel.jpg|center|300 px|Arms of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>Emeritus bishop of Savannah (after 2011) | |align="center"|[[File:Boland.rel.jpg|center|300 px|Arms of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>Emeritus bishop of Savannah (after 2011) | ||
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===Official blazon=== | ===Official blazon=== | ||
As bishop:<br> | |||
Impaled Arms: On the dexter for the Diocese of Savannah; Argent on a cross gules, a rose or between four mullets azure. On the sinister for Bishop Boland; Azure a round tower or, on a chief of the last, a lion passant gules langued and armed 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 personal Arms of Bishop Boland consist of a blue field charged with a round tower of gold, representative of St. Kevin, the bishop's patron saint who founded a monastic settlement at Glendalough, County Wicklow, where a round tower can be found to this day. In the chief is a red lion. The chief and lion are found in the Arms of the Irish sept of Boland and the lion also commemorates the sept of O'Brien, the bishop's maternal family. | |||
The achievement is completed with the heraldic insignia of a prelate of the rank of bishop by instruction of the Holy See, of March 1969, confirmed in March 2001. | |||
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