Monday 16 December 2013

Salve

Welcome back to William Shaw of Easter Lair.

Thursday 12 December 2013

Salve

We welcome Stephen Rettie of Glasgow.

Royal Opera House Christmas Card

The Royal Opera House has created a lovely ecard this Christmas using Tchaikovsky's Trepak and the royal coat of ams (English version): ROH ecard

Wednesday 4 December 2013

Today's heraldic saint: San Bernardo degli Uberti


Arms of Dom Henry O'Shea OSB

I have added today to the HSS galleries  the splendid arms of Dom Henry O'Shea OSB, a Benedictine monk of Glenstal  and a Chaplain to the Order of Malta. He inherited the arms from his great-grandfather, Sir Henry O'Shea who was granted them by the Ulster Office in March 1916.

The blazon is a model of artistic economy:
Party per pale indented Or and Vert two fleurs-de-lys in fess counterchanged.

Tuesday 3 December 2013

Today's heraldic saint: St Francis Xavier SJ (1506-1552)

Badge granted to Campion House, St Aloysius' College, Glasgow, by the Lord Lyon in 2006:
Made by Fattorini of Birmingham
 Deus, qui Indiarum gentes beati Francisci praedicatione et miraculis Ecclesiae tuae aggregare voluisti: concede propitius; ut cuius gloriosa merita veneramur, virtutum quoque imitemur exempla. Per Dominum nostrum Iesum Christum, Filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia saecula saeculorum. 

Laura Dent Campbell - matriculation of Arms

Laura Dent Campbell

Gyronny of eight Or and Sable, the First charged of four glossy ibises' heads erased of the Second within a bordure Azure charged with three fleur-de-Iys Or for difference. Above the Shield is placed an Helmet befitting her degree, with a Mantling Sable doubled Or, and on a Wreath of the Liveries is set for Crest a glossy ibis Sable, and in an Escrol over the same this Motto "IN HARMONY".

Matriculated: Interlocutor issue to Lyon Clerk by Lord Lyon 30 September 2013

Laura is the daughter of the Delegate for North American to the Society, Donald Draper Campbell. 

Arms drawn by John Hamilton Gaylor.

Sunday 1 December 2013

Today's heraldic saint: St Edmund Campion (1540-1581)

Badge granted to Campion House, St Aloysius' College, Glasgow, by the Lord Lyon in 2006:
 
Badge made by Fattorini of Birmingham
 "And touching our Societie, be it known to you that we have made a
league----
all the Jesuits in the world, whose succession and multitude
must overreach all the practices of England----
cheerfully to carry the
cross you shall lay upon us, and never to despair your recovery, while
we have a man left to enjoy your Tyburn, or to be racked with your
torments, or consumed with your prisons. The expense is reckoned,
the enterprise is begun; it is of God, it cannot be withstood.
So the Faith was planted: so it must be restored."