Christmas Greetings from the Committee

 

Salve

Welcome back to William Shaw of Easter Lair.

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

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.

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.