Charles Borromeo McLaughlin

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' CHARLES BORROMEO MCLAUGHLIN 'Born: September 28, 1913
Deceased: December 14, 1978

Auxioliary Bishop of Raleigh, 1964-1968; Titular Bishop of Risinium
Bishop of Saint Petersburg, 1968-1978

Arms (crest) of Charles Borromeo McLaughlin

Auxiliary Bishop of Raleigh
Arms (crest) of Charles Borromeo McLaughlin

Bishop of Saint Petersburg
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Impaled arms. Dexter: Quarterly, gules and or, a reversed Latin cross throughout, in the first quarter a castle tower, in the second a lion rampant, in the third an Indian arrowhead, in the fourth a halberd, all counterchanged (Diocese of Saint Petersburg). Sinister: Gules, a man in complete armor facing the sinister argent, holding an anchor or, in dexter chief a mullet of the second, on a chief of the same the crown on the arms of Saint Charles Borromeo proper.
Motto: "Ubi Caritas Ibi Deus." |- |English | blazon wanted |}

Origin/meaning

As common in US episcopal heraldry, the arms show the arms of the diocese impaled with the personal arms of the bishop.

The personal coat of arms is that of a (non related) McLaughlin family of County Meath in Ireland from which the ancestors of the Bishop came. These arms bear a knight on a red field holding a bow and arrow with an anchor displayed as a crest above the shield. To "difference" these arms, and to make them less warlike and more ecclesiastical, the anchor has been substituted for the bow and arrow. The anchor as the symbol of the Theological Virtue of Hope is more befitting for a prelate, and yet the whole affords an adequate interpretation of the McLaughlin family arms.

The silver star in the upper left of the shield is derived from the coat of arms of His Excellency, the Most Reverend Vincent Stanislaus Waters, Bishop of Raleigh, whom Bishop McLaughlin served as Auxiliary Bishop.

The chief shows a gold crown from the arms of Saint Charles Borromeo, the baptismal patron of the ishop. The crown also honors Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, the baptismal patron of the Bishop's mother, Elizabeth Abel McLaughlin. Saint Eliza­beth, Queen of Hungary (1207-1231), who died at the age of twenty­ four, lived a life of voluntary poverty as a Franciscan tertiary after the death of her husband, Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia, to whom she bore three children.

The motto, "Ubi Caritas Ibi Deus," translated "Where there is love, there is God" is taken from the hymn sung on Holy Thursday at the Communion of the Mass.

The achievement is completed with the heraldic insignia of a prelate of the rank of bishop by instruction of the Holy See, of March 1969, confirmed in March 2001.

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