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The coat of arms of Georg Gänswein, the pope’s secretary who will be ordained Titular archbishop of Urbs Salvia tomorrow and become Prefect of the Pontifical Household. It is customary for the Prefect of the Pontifical Household to impale his personal arms with those of the reigning pontiff whom he serves. This is only "pro hac vice". If Gänswein is translated to be archbishop of his own See someday then he must cease impaling his arms with those of the pope. In addition, if this pope dies and the next pope keeps Gänswein on as Prefect of the Pontifical Household then the archbishop’s arms will change and be impaled with those of the next pope. Nice reference to St. George slaying the dragon in his personal arms.
Yes, quite nice, although a missed chance at what might have been an interesting canting coat.
Gans = goose
Wein = wine
very nice.
Testimonium Perhibere Veritati - "to bear witness to the truth"
Did archbishop Gänswein bear arms before his elevation to Archbishop, or is the whole new?
But the name is Gänswein not Ganswein. Besides, I like the St. George allusion better.
gselvester;97185 wrote:
But the name is Gänswein not Ganswein. Besides, I like the St. George allusion better.
Gänse is the plural of Gans, and a gander is a Gänser.
So it would be "geese - wine"? I’m still glad he went with the St. George thing.
The expression gänsewein (German) gåsevin (Danish) vin de grenouilles (French) is relatively common, usually said in jest and means to drink or serve water. Also to ‘drink with geese’.
Drei sechs neun
die Gans tranken Wein ....
Hmmmm… sounds better in English.
Three-six-nine
the goose drank wine.
Congratulations to His Excellency Gaenswein.
—Guy
Nice arms—simple, clean, distinctive & not cloyingly clerical.
His extended family (siblings, cousins etc) could (or do they already?) bear these arms with pride—without the papal impalement or the galero, of course—adding perhaps a helm and crest? maybe a gander with a wineglass, or maybe a tastevin on a chain around it’s neck?
