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PAGE 8A—THE BULLETIN, April 14, 1962
ARCHBISHOP'S
COAT OF ARMS
Blazon
Impaled arms. Dexter: Argent,
three bars wavy azure, in fess a
crown or, on the first bar a
Cherokee rose proper (Archdio
cese of Atlanta). Sinister: Argent,
an oak tree eradicated vert, the
trunk between two hearts gules,
in the foliage a sword in pale
point to the base enfiled with a
crown or (Archbishop Hallinan).
Motto: “Ut Diligatis Invicem.”
Significance
The entire “achievement,” or
coat of arms as it is generally
called, is composed of the shield
with its charges, the motto and
the external ornaments. As one
looks at the shield the terms dex
ter and sinister must be under
stood contrariwise, as the shield
was worn on the arm in medieval
days and these terms were used
in the relationship of one behind
the escutcheon.
The dexter impalement is given
in ecclesiastical heraldry to the
arms of jurisdiction; in this in
stance, the arms of the Archdio
cese of Atlanta.
Atlanta, called the “Cross
Roads of the South” because of
all the railroads which meet at
this capital city of the State of
Georgia, received its name as the
eastern terminus of the Western
and Atlantic Railroad which con
nected northern Georgia with the
Tennessee River. Originally call
ed Whitehall, then Terminus, and
afterwards in 1843 Marthasville,
the legislature of Georgia finally
acquiesced to the wishes of the
railroad and accepted the new
name of Atlanta in 1847, thus
naming the city indirectly after
the Atlantic Ocean.
The Atlantic Ocean is repre
sented on the shield of the arch
diocese by silver and blue wavy
bars, the heraldic equivalent of
the waves of the sea; seven bars
in number to symbolize the sev
en streams of Grace, the Seven
Sacraments administered in the
Archdiocese of Atlanta.
Over all the golden crown of
Christ the King denotes the titu
lar of the cathedral church, the
Eternal King Who has command
ed His redeeming Sacrifice on
the Cross to be renewed daily in
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
The crown honors the triple king-
ship of Christ: “Potestas Legisla-
tiva, Potestas Magisterii et Po
testas Ministerii” — Christ the
Legislator, Christ the Teacher and
Christ the High Priest. The
crown is ensigned by the Chero
kee rose, the State flower of
Georgia (Rosa Laevigata), as be
fits an archdiocese located in the
Capital City. The Cherokee rose
is a flat white flower with a yel
low center.
The crown of Christ the King,
in the arms of the Archdiocese of
Atlanta, also has the secondary
representation of the crown of
King George II of England after
whom Georgia was named. The
blue and silver wavy bands may
be also said to symbolize the
wavy, rolling foothills of the Blue
Ridge country; but, more import
ant, blue and white are the Ma
rian colors.
The sinister impalement, on the
right to the viewer, bears the per
sonal arms of Archbishop Halli
nan to express his jurisdiction
over the Archdiocese of Atlanta.
The arms of the Irish Hallinan
family consist of a silver field
emblazoned with a green oak
tree, its roots exposed, and bear
ing a golden crown in the middle
of the foliage. These arms have
been “differenced” by the addi
tion of a golden sword to honor
St. Paul, the baptismal patron of
the Archbishop, and by two red
hearts, from the coat of arms of
the revered Cardinal Newman, to
honor the titular of the Newman
Foundation of Western Reserve
University, where the Archbishop
was chaplain at the time of his
appointment to the episcopacy.
Cardinal Newman was received
into the Catholic Church in 1845
and became one of the foremost
apologists for the Catholic faith.
The tree on the Hallinan arms
has more than a passing inter
est inasmuch as the grandfather
and father of the Archbishop
were both nurserymen. The
crown, too, is doubly significant
because such a charge also ap
pears on the coat of arms of
Archbishop-Bishop H o b a n of
Cleveland, where Archbishop
Hallinan labored as'a priest from
1937 until his Consecration as
Bishop of Charleston.
O’Hallinan is derived from the
Gaelic “Hailgheanain,” variously
spelled O’Hallinaine, O’Hallinan,
Hallanan and Hainan, who are
descendants of “Ailgheanan,” the
diminutive of “Ailghean,” mean
ing “noble offspring.” It is an
old Munster surname found chief
ly in Cork and Limerick. It is
also apparently a Connacht sur
name, now not uncommon in
West Mayo. A Hallinan, “Mac-
Beathaidh O’Hailgheanian,” was
•Bishop of Cork in the beginning
of the twelfth century.
The motto, “Ut Diligatis In
vicem,” is translated “That you
love one another.” The full text
of this verse from the Gospel of
St. John is “This is my com
mandment, that you love one
another as I have loved you”
(15:12), a part of the beautiful
discourse of Our Blessed Lord to
His apostles at the Last Supper.
A motto briefly expresses an
ideal, a program of life and the
gold. These are the presently ac
cepted heraldic trappings of a
prelate of the rank of Archbishop.
Before 1870, the pontifical hat
spirit of the one who selects it. was worn at solemn cavalcades
The external ornaments are
composed of the pontifical hat
with its ten tassels on each side,
disposed in four rows, all in
green, and the precious mitre, the
archiepiscopal cross with double
traverse and the crosier, all in
held in conjunction with papal
functions. The colors of the pon
tifical hat and the number and
color of the tassels were signs of
the rank of a prelate, a custom
which is still preserved in ecclesi
astical heraldry. W. F. J. Ryan
fUT DILIGATIS INVICEM
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