Pope coat of arms
A Pope's coat of arms is the personal coat of arms of a Pope , which also symbolizes his pontificate . The national coat of arms of the Vatican City and the coat of arms of the Holy See are to be distinguished. The first verifiable papal coat of arms was carried by Boniface VIII (r. 1294–1303).
Pope coat of arms
A coat of arms as a symbol of the person of the pontiff and bishop of Rome consists of several parts. The tiara or papal crown, a sign of papal rule, is in the center of the coat of arms . Below are the keys of Peter . In contrast to the state coat of arms of the Vatican City, the golden key (heraldic) points to the right. As in the coat of arms of the Vatican City, but different from that of the Holy See, the tasseled ends of the red cord are (apparently) looped around the (hidden) intersection of the keys and then passed through the reids , from where they hang loosely. In the past, keys and tiara were arranged above the escutcheon, but since the 17th century the keys have slipped further behind the escutcheon.
The symbols of the coat of arms reflect aristocratic or local origin, membership of an order or the intentions of the pontiff. This defines the symbols, which mostly come from the previous bishop's coat of arms, at the beginning of the pontificate . The Pope's motto can be given below the coat of arms, e.g. B. Pope Francis Miserando atque eligendo ( Latin for chosen from mercy ).
In the course of the last centuries the papal coat of arms has hardly been subject to any major structural change. Benedict XVI. replaced the traditional tiara with a miter for the first time . However, he never did without the traditional representation with the tiara. The coat of arms crowned in this way was first seen in October 2010 during the Sunday Angelus prayer . The standard of the Swiss Guard always showed Benedict's coat of arms with the tiara. As a sign of his pastoral office , he added a pallium to the coat of arms for the first time . While his successor Francis left it with the miter, he did without the pallium.
Prefects of the Papal House
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Prefects of the Papal House can use the Pope's coat of arms as part of their own coat of arms. The archbishop's coat of arms of Georg Gänswein showed the coat of arms of Pope Benedict XVI until 2013 . , since then the coat of arms of Pope Francis .
See also
- Explanation of the coat of arms of Pope Francis
- List of papal coats of arms
- Ecclesiastical heraldry
- Key Petri
- Vatican City Coat of Arms
- Holy See coat of arms
literature
- Ursula Nilgen, Key II. Iconography, Symbolism , in Lexikon des Mittelalter VII, Sp. 1493
- Václav Vok Filip, Introduction to Heraldry , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, p. 84 (Basic historical sciences in individual representations 3) ISBN 3-515-07559-3
Web links
- Official description of the coat of arms of Benedict XVI. (vatican.va)
- Official description of the coat of arms of Francis (vatican.va)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Donald Lindsay Galbreath , Papal Heraldry, Second Edition Revised by Geoffrey Briggs, London 1972, p. 38: "Boniface VIII is however the first Pontiff of whose arms we have any certain contemporary examples, for, as the Popes bore originally merely their family shield without any distinctive adjunct such as tiara or keys, it is impossible to attribute certain shields to a Pope in preference to other members of his family. "
- ↑ Broadcast by Vatican Radio, other broadcasts read accordingly "He had mercy on him and chose him" or "Merciful and yet chosen".
- ↑ Catholic Magazine for Church and Culture: The Tiara Has Returned - The Three Powers of the Pope (October 13, 2010, accessed on March 19, 2013)
- ^ Standard Swiss Guard ( Memento of April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) under Benedict XVI.
- ↑ https://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/de/elezione/documents/stemma-benedict-xvi.html
- ↑ Explanation of the Pope's coat of arms, Francis. Retrieved March 18, 2013 .
