Having discovered in a book online called Armorial du Canada français that St. Isaac Jogues (killed by Mohawk Indians in upstate New York in 1646) had a coat of arms:

http://www.americanheraldry.org/pages/uploads/Roll/jogues.gif

I decided that in between emblazoning for the roll of early American arms, it was time to start working on the additional rolls for famous Americans that we once discussed years ago, and to begin with religious figures.

I don’t know if St Elizabeth Ann Seton actually ever used armorial bearings, but here’s a hypothetical construction based on those used in the family. She was the daughter of Dr. Richard Bayley and, by the time she founded the Sisters of Charity, the widow of William Magee Seton. As a widow, according to the English custom, she would have borne a lozenge with her paternal arms to sinister impaled by her late husband’s to dexter.

Her father-in-law, William Seton, used the basic Scottish arms of Seton (Or three crescents within a double tressure flory-counterflory Gules) on his bookplate. I don’t know his descent, but the NEHGS COH accepted his right to this coat by registering it in their roll of arms (Reg. No. 505).

http://www.americanheraldry.org/pages/uploads/Roll/seton.gif

What about Bayley? Again, I don’t know if her father used a coat of arms, but her nephew, M. Rev. James Roosevelt Bayley, 1st Bishop of Newark and 8th Archbishop of Baltimore, did: Argent three torteaux a chief Gules.

So assuming that these arms had been handed down in the family, St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton’s arms would be:

http://www.americanheraldry.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1172&stc=1&d=1360255680

http://imageshack.us/a/img259/7965/neumannpress1567280078.jpg

St. John Neumann was the bishop of Philadelphia and, therefore, armigerous. His arms aren’t very nice but we know they were the ones he bore. Gules between three nails points inward Argent the emblem of the Redemptorist Order Proper. Sometimes I have seen the arms with the field depicted as Purpure rather than Gules. The galero depicted incorrectly has twenty tassels and it should have twelve.

gselvester;97504 wrote:

http://imageshack.us/a/img259/7965/neumannpress1567280078.jpg

St. John Neumann was the bishop of Philadelphia and, therefore, armigerous. His arms aren’t very nice but we know they were the ones he bore. Gules between three nails points inward Argent the emblem of the Redemptorist Order Proper. Sometimes I have seen the arms with the field depicted as Purpure rather than Gules. The galero depicted incorrectly has twenty tassels and it should have twelve.

Funny you should mention it.  The emblazonment is done except for the nails.  I had to take a break for errands.

And here it is.  I was working from a slightly different emblazonment in Shea’s history of the Catholic Church in America, which shows the instruments of the passion pilewise at the foot of the cross instead of in saltire.

http://www.americanheraldry.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1174&stc=1&d=1360268436

I haven’t yet found a blazon nor emblazonment, but St. Katherine Drexel’s uncle was Anthony Drexel who founded Drexel University.  They have a silver piece in their collection "engraved with the Drexel family crest, the Stag-and-Crown".  It’s certainly possible that her father bore arms.

See here: http://drexel.edu/now/features/archive/2012/January/From-the-Collection-Epergne/

Joseph McMillan;97506 wrote:

... which shows the instruments of the passion pilewise at the foot of the cross instead of in saltire.

Here is the "arms" of that order as it is usually depicted.

 

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT8KW9Td72Oe2gQWznIKnzcarmbczNCyYwB8fSW_Rbv2zndo_ijww

A set of arms of eminent religious figures is now up at http://www.americanheraldry.org/pages/index.php?n=Notable.Religious.

(Pardon me if I mentioned this before.)

Joseph McMillan;97568 wrote:

A set of arms of eminent religious figures is now up at http://www.americanheraldry.org/pages/index.php?n=Notable.Religious.

(Pardon me if I mentioned this before.)

Very nice!

In the blazon of Bishop Seabury, is the plural of ibex really ibexes?  I was expecting something like ibices (akin to index and indices), but that could just be too much Latin on my part   In any case I can’t recall having seen an ibex in arms before!

EDIT: I stand corrected

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ibexes_in_heraldry

I’ve just added Anne Hutchinson and Henry Muhlenberg to the roll of American religious leaders.

http://www.americanheraldry.org/pages/index.php?n=Notable.Religious?action=browse