Other Historic Figures

Religious Leaders

ARM NAME BLAZON COMMENTS
Carroll, M. Rev. John, S.J. (Upper Marlboro, Md, 1735-Baltimore, 1815)

Argent two lions rampant combatant Gules supporting a sword palewise proper hilted and pommelled Or

Archbishop of Baltimore; first Catholic bishop and archbishop in the United States; founder of Georgetown University
Edwards, Rev. Jonathan (East Windsor, Conn, 1703-Princeton, N.J., 1758)

Per bend sinister Ermine and Ermines overall a lion rampant Or

Congregationalist (Puritan) minister and theologian. Arms on silver left in his will.
Gallitzin, Rev (Prince) Demetrius Augustine (The Hague, 1770-Loretto, Pa., 1840)

Per fess, the base per pale, 1st Gules a a knight in full harness the sword held horizontally mounted on a galloping horse Argent his shield Or (for Lithuania); 2nd Argent upon a floor proper [?] two bears Sable supporting a throne Or cushioned Gules surmounted by a candleabra of three candles flamed proper, holding in their exterior paws two scepters crossed in saltire before the throne Or; 3rd Azure a cross moline surmounted of an escutcheon Argent charged with a double-headed eagle Sable armed and imperially crowned on each head Or

Known as the "Apostle of the Alleghenies." A Russian prince who converted to Catholicism, came to America in 1792, and founded the first English-speaking Catholic mission west of the Alleghenies at Loretto, Pa. He was designated a "Servant of God" by the Catholic Church in 2005, the first step toward possible canonization as a saint.
Gibbons, H. Em. James Cardinal (Baltimore, 1834-1921)

Sable on a fess between three lions' faces Argent an escallop Gules

Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore. His second coat of arms, designed by Pierre de Chaignon la Rose.
Hutchinson, Anne Marbury (Alford, Lincs, 1591-New Netherland, 1643)

Per pale, dexter per pale Gules and Azure a lion rampant Argent within an orle of eight cross crosslets Or (Hutchinson); sinister Argent on a fess engrailed Gules three garbs Or (Marbury)

Puritan religious reformer; Mrs. William Hutchinson
Jogues, St. Isaac, S.J. (Orleans, France, 1607-nr Auriesville, N.Y., 1646)

Or on a chevron Sable between in chief two stags' heads caboshed proper and in base a rock argent gushing water to sinister and to dexter a duck naiant proper, three mullets Or

Jesuit missionary martyred by Mohawk Indians; canonized 1930
Mather, Rev. Increase (Dorchester, Mass, 1639-Boston, 1723)

On a plate between six mullets, two in chief and four in base, an increscent moon with human face [tinctures not indicated]

Seal on his will dated 1701. Mather sometimes latinized his first name as Crescentius; the waxing increscent moon would be a cant on this.
1. Mather, Rev. Increase (Dorchester, Mass, 1639-Boston, 1723)[[<<]]2. Mather, Rev. Dr. Cotton (Boston, 1663-1728)

Ermine on a fess wavy Azure three lions rampant Or

1. Congregationalist (Puritan) minister and author. See alternative arms below.[[<<2. Congregationalist (Puritan) minister and author; son of Increase Mather. Arms described in his autobiography.
Mühlenberg, Rev. Henry [Heinrich] Melchior (b. Einbeck, Ger., 1711; d. Trappe, Pa., 1787)

Per chevron Argent and Sable three cinquefoils counterchanged, a mullet in chief

Missionary, arrived in Pennsylvania 1742; father of Lutheranism in America.
Neumann, St. John Nepomucene, C.Ss.R (Prachatitz, Bohemia, 1811-Philadelphia, 1860)

Gules the emblem of the Redemptorist Order (upon the middle of three mountains the Holy Cross surmounted of the Holy Sponge and Lance pilewise proper between the letter IS and MR Or, in chief the eye of God proper radiant Or) between three passion nails points inward Argent

Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia; canonized 1977. Arms on his episcopal seal.
Seabury, Rt. Rev. Samuel (Groton, Conn, 1729-New London, Conn, 1796)

Argent a fess engrailed between three ibexes passant Sable

Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut and Rhode Island; first bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States
Seton, St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley, S.C. (New York, 1774-Emmitsburg, Md., 1821)

Per pale, dexter Or three crescents within a double tressure flory-counterflory Gules (Seton); sinister Argent three torteaux a chief Gules (Bayley)

Foundress of the Sisters of Charity, the first Catholic religious order founded in the United States; canonized 1975. The arms are those of her husband, William Magee Seton (NEHGS Roll of Arms No. 505), impaling those of Bayley as borne by her nephew, M. Rev. James Roosevelt Bayley, on his seal as archbishop of Baltimore. As a widow, she would have displayed these arms on a lozenge.
Sheen, Ven. Fulton John (El Paso, Ill, 1895-New York, 1979)

Azure in chief a dove volant carrying in his beak an olive branch proper in base a plate all within a bordure Argent

Bishop of Rochester, titular Archbishop of Newport (South Wales); pioneering Catholic radio and television evangelist.
White, M. Rev. Dr. William (Philadelphia, 1748-1836)

Argent on a chevron between three wolves' heads erased Gules a leopard's face Argent.

First Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania and first Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Arms on a memorial window, Christ Church, Philadelphia