In 2010 the International Congress of Heraldic and Genealogical Sciences will be held in Stuttgart, Germany. The congress will be held under the auspices of the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft für Heraldik und Genealogie mbH:
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In a three-part series, Dwyer Quentin Wedvick (2008) writes on the heraldry associated with St Pius X. The coats of arms in these articles were painted by the late Michael McCarthy, a member of The Australian Heraldry Society. The articles are reproduced with the kind permission of the publishers, The Angelus Press Ltd.
Part
1: Heraldry & St Pius X. [ 
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Part 2: The heraldry
and history of six pontifs before and after St Pius X.
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Part 3: A legacy
of St Pius X, the Society of St Pius X, its history and heraldry.
[ PDF 2.18 MB]
What are our national colours? Green and gold? Blue and gold? White and blue? In an ABC radio interview, Stephen Szabo explains the significance of the colours of dress our sportsmen and women wore at the 2008 Olympic opening ceremony.
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[ www] and download
the 1.2 MB mp3 file.
The
Australian Heraldry Society congratulates William Sellar on his appointment
as Lord Lyon King of Arms. Mr Sellar was appointed by the Queen in March 2008,
on the recommendation of the First Minister of the Scottish Government. He
succeeds Robin Blair LVO WS, who has held the office of Lord Lyon since 2001.
Mr Sellar, educated at Oxford and Edinburgh, qualified as a solicitor in 1966. After two years with the Scottish Land Court, he joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Edinburgh where he is now an Honorary Fellow. He is joint author of the Saltire Society's Scottish Legal Tradition (1991), and has written on the history of various branches of Scots law, including marriage, divorce, incest, homicide and unjust enrichment. He has published on the Lordship of the Isles and on the origins of many Highland families, including the Campbells, MacDonalds, MacDougalls, MacLeods, Lamonts, MacNeills and Nicolsons. He has been a Member of the Ancient Monuments Board for Scotland, Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Literary Director of the Stair Society, Chairman of Council of the Scottish History Society and Chairman of the Conference of Scottish Medievalists. He has also served on the Council of the Scottish Genealogy Society and of the Heraldry Society of Scotland. He was appointed Bute Pursuivant of Arms in 2001.
The Lord Lyon has both administrative and judicial functions. The administrative functions include the granting of armorial bearings to individual persons and corporations. The Lord Lyon's judicial functions include ruling on who has the right to bear an existing coat of arms, and the authorisation of matriculations of differenced Arms.
The Perth Mint has produced a 99.9% pure silver coin featuring the Australian Commonwealth coat of arms, in full colour. These arms, displayed on the obverse of the coin, were granted by King George V in a Royal Warrant on 19 September 1912. Australia's first coat of arms was granted by King Edward VII in 1908 and are featured on the reverse.
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For
further details visit the Perth
Mint web site [
www]. This coin is available for purchase from the Perth Mint from January
2008.
Bishop Brady was ordained Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney on 16 November 2007. Bishop Brady’s family is of Irish origin, derived from the Mac Brady sept of County Cavan in the Province of Ulster, Republic of Ireland. In the language of heraldry, the sept arms are: Sable in the sinister base a dexter Hand couped at the wrist proper pointing with the index finger at a Sun in splendour in dexter chief Or.
The Bishop’s arms, based on the arms of his sept with differences specific to himself, are blazoned: Sable in dexter chief a Sun Or charged in the centre with a Heart Gules in sinister chief a Celtic Cross Or in base a dexter Hand raised in blessing couped at the wrist proper.
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The charges which Bishop Brady has chosen to difference his arms are the heart on the sun emblematic of the Sacred Heart, the Celtic cross emblematic of Christ’s suffering and death for us, and the hand raised in blessing representative of the duties of the Episcopal office to which he has been called.
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Bishop Brady’s titular see of Talattula is located in Bizacena, a district of the Roman province of Africa corresponding to the present area of Tunisia.
The arms were designed by Richard d’Apice and Christopher Lindesay and illustrated by Sandy Turnbull.
It is with regret we advise that Michael McCarthy died suddenly on 3 August 2007 at his home in Sydney at the age of 57 years. Michael was an internationally renowned heraldic artist and expert on the heraldry of the Roman Catholic Church and an author of a number of texts on the subject including
Michael was an active member of the Australian Heraldry Society and was Vice-President (New South Wales) for a number of years. Many in the international community will recall meeting him at the 27th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences in St Andrews, Scotland, in August 2006, where he presented a paper on "The evolution of diocesan arms in Ireland". Michael's quiet advice and support will be sorely missed.
Tributes have been coming in from around the world emphasising the great loss Michael's death represents.
Aeternum vale.
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Born January 20, 1950. Died August 3, 2007 suddenly at home at Darlinghurst.
Fond son of Norah Elizabeth (Scullion) and the late Francis John McCarthy, brother of Daniel and Thomas and uncle to their children. He was a former administrator at the School of Asian Studies, University of Sydney. He had been a seminarian in his youth but decided not to pursue the priesthood and he went home to Tasmania. He maintained strong links with the Church and in 2002 was invested as a Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre. Recently he had been promoted to Knight Commander.
In 2003 he received a small grant from the National Library of Ireland to produce a book on the coats of arms of the bishops of Ireland. The beginnings of this were presented as a paper at the XXVIIth International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences convened at St. Andrews, Scotland in 2006. The completed work is with the Chief Herald of Ireland for review. He was hoping for its completion and eventual publication book at the time of his death.
From an early interest in heraldry encouraged by Archbishop Bruno Heim during his appointment to the Court of St James’, Michael established Thylacine Press (named after extinct carnivorous marsupial from his native Tasmania) in 1998 to publish works on ecclesiastical heraldry, which would be given in the historical context in which particular Coats-of-Arms were and are used. At his death he was the author, primary illustrator and publisher of no less than seven books on heraldry. They are:
In addition, in 2001 and again in 2005 he published supplements to the Heraldica Collegii Cardinalium and a CD ROM updated version of the Armorial of the Australian Catholic Hierarchy was produced in 2005.
A fine artist and a keen scholar Michael's unique style was befriended, encouraged and heavily influenced by the late great Archbishop Bruno Heim as well as being influenced by the late Dom Anselm Baker, OCSO. Michael could often be seen to be "difficult" by those who didn't know him well. He had very strong opinions and didn't suffer fools gladly. However, after a disagreement it was often he who was the first to offer a conciliatory word. Horribly worried about the decaying state of heraldry in the Catholic Church Michael undertook to effect a revival of sorts building on the foundation laid by Heim. For those who will miss his work and his contributions to the world of ecclesiastical heraldry his efforts were certainly not in vain and he was somewhat successful in achieving his goals. It is a shame that his untimely death comes just as he was beginning to receive the recognition he so richly deserved as one of the world's leading scholars of heraldry as well as one of its finest heraldic artists. In his Manual of Ecclesiastical Heraldry he left a work of great practical utility to experts as well as to many amateurs.
Michael
was a devout man with a dry but very quick sense of humor. He lived modestly
in Darlinghurst and ran his pet project, Thylacine Press, out of his residence.
His tiny cramped library was a treasure trove of heraldica! In recent years
he began to look forward to a hoped-for return to his native Tasmania. He
will be sorely missed by those who knew him personally and those who knew
only his magnificent and prolific work.
In recent times Michael had been putting his art work into bound volumes for its protection and with a view to its ultimate bequest to the Vatican Library to which he left “all my library of heraldic books, manuscripts, illustrations, artwork and related material and all copyrights belonging to me whether in published or unpublished works.” He was a member of Heraldry Australia as well as the Society of Heraldic Arts.
The Mass of Christian Burial for Mr MICHAEL FRANCIS McCARTHY was offered in St Canice’s Church, Roslyn Street, Elizabeth Bay, on Tuesday (August 14, 2007), commencing at 10 a.m.
May He Rest In Peace
Obituary and hatchment by Fr Guy Silvester
Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark’s marriage to Miss Mary Donaldson of Hobart, Tasmania was shortly preceded by the award of the Order of the Elephant to Miss Donaldson and the Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog to her father Professor John Donaldson. In accordance with the statutes of the Danish Royal Orders, these awards necessitated the design of new coats of arms for them for display in the Chapel of the Royal Orders at Frederiksborg Castle.
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The Donaldson family is Australian of recent Scottish origin and it was decided to design the arms as closely as possible to Scottish heraldic tradition, while including symbols of a personal nature and references to Australia. Professor Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard undertook the research into the Scottish background, and based upon this he made several suggestions for the design of the arms. Ronny Andersen, Kongelig våbenmaler (Royal Shield Painter), then made suggestions to The Crown Princess and Professor Donaldson and their personal preferences were also taken into account.
The basic design was the MacDonald eagle and boat for the Scottish ancestry and, in the chief, two seven pointed Federation Stars from the Crest of the Australian arms for Australia. More personal symbols were incorporated into the chief with Professor Donaldson choosing the infinity symbol as representative of his career as a mathematician (it corresponds with his motto as well) and with The Crown Princess choosing the rose as her personal symbol. The red lion in Professor Donaldson’s crest is derived from the Scottish red lion and also the red lion in the arms of Tasmania and Hobart.
The coats of arms were approved in 2006 and painted on shields for the Chapel of the Royal Orders in 2007.
Designers: Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard and Ronny Andersen
Emblazonment: Ronny Andersen
Acknowledgement: Heraldisk Tidsskrift, Vol 10, No 95, (March 2007),
pp 201-212
Reproduced with permission.
The Hasluck Banner
The former Australian Governor-General, Sir Paul Hasluck, was appointed to the Order of the Garter in 1979. Following his death in 1993, his banner was removed from St George's Chapel, Windsor, and laid up in St George's Cathedral in Perth. Sir Paul's son, Nicholas, reflects on tradition and change in the context of his father's life in his book titled The Hasluck Banner. Details of the banner and its transportation to Australia would be of most interest to students of heraldry. Published by Freshwater Bay Press, Claremont, 2006. ISBN 1-74008-390-3. Price A$15.00. 80 pp.
Armoria Pontificalium
Armoria Pontificalium. A Roll of Papal Arms 1012 - 2006
is compiled and lavishly illustrated by Michael Francis McCarthy. This work
gives a new and fresh roll of Papal arms from 1012 to Benedict XVI, and includes
the blazons of the arms used by popes with margin illustrations of actual
examples of their arms taken from manuscripts, contemporary publications,
artwork, architecture, and monuments. The author's rendition of the complete
Roll is included in twenty colour plates. The book was published by Thylacine
Press [ www]
in April 2007. Price in Australia A$100.00.
