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Exactly. I was probably using sloppy language. What I needed help with was
the saints' attributes, symbols, etc.
Rosemary Hayes
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Subject: Re: [M-R] saints' armorials
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> On 30/03/2011 15:19, Rosemary Hayes-Milligan and Andrew Milligan wrote:
>>
>> I do not think that any of the shields will be related to the heraldry of
>> patrons, as Henk suggests. The church was built 110 years ago from an
>> Austrian kit for the Catholic Irish servants of the protestant profession
>> class hereabouts and I doubt if there were any arms-bearing patrons.
>> Other symbols are definitely saints, relating to the evangelists, BVM, St
>> James, etc.
>
> I think you have largely answered your own question: the 'kit' came with
> shields, and these have been decorated with saints' attributes, symbols,
> etc. Nothing to do with heraldry at all!
>
> John Briggs
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