The arms of one of the papabili, João Cardinal Braz de Aviz, currently Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
Is this not one of the most interesting partings you’ve ever seen? ("Parted per the Sacred Heart"?)
"Ut Omnēs Ūnum Sint" is from a Latin hymn derived from John 17:21, meaning "that they all may be one".
The arms would have been better if he had skipped blue and interlaced rings and just gone with per fess division using the sacred heart.
IMO one of the most interesting & inventive designs we’ve seen! I’m still digesting & not ready to say "a bit too busy" or "just right"——or maybe "just barely just right"?— but most intriguing!
My initial impression is that they likely look much better alone than they would impaled, though I haven’t seen them in that format.
I’ve never seen this line division before. Do we know of any other examples, modern or ancient?
Dcgb7f;97723 wrote:
The arms would have been better if he had skipped blue and interlaced rings and just gone with per fess division using the sacred heart.
I agree, particularly if the hearts were made larger so that there were less of them within the width of the shield.
Dcgb7f;97723 wrote:
The arms would have been better if he had skipped blue and interlaced rings and just gone with per fess division using the sacred heart.
With all due respects to the symbolism, I fear my first thought on the emblasonment was that there was a line of turnips or radishes. :-?
I think that perhaps the sacred heart could be better depicted if the flames resembled such more clearly and not the stalk and leaves of a plant. Personally I think the arms would have been better with the simple Azure and three interlined rings 2 and 1 in chief a latin cross issuant from the ring in base (is that a near enough bason?).
First of all I think that this is a very interesting parting line but imho it is depicted wrong. The normal way a parting line is depicted is with more space between the objects so that the two half fields interlock with each other. That is not the case here the hearts are to close to one and other which makes it look like separate charges on the sides of the parting line. Also the flames are loose from the hearts which makes them separate charges.
