Cor ad Cor Loquitur - St John Henry Newman - Coat of Arms

 

The Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, better known as Brompton Oratory, is home to the Congregation of the Oratory of St Philip Neri in London, a community of priests living under the rule of life established by its founder in the sixteenth century. The Oratory also serves as a parish church in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster.

      

   

This website explains a little about St John Newman's Arms

http://www.newmanfriendsinternational.org/en/cor-ad-cor-loquitur-john-henry-cardinal-newmans-coat-of-arms/

Taken from the above website

There are three red hearts on a golden background on Cardinal Newman’s heart shaped crest, the upper two separated from the lower one by a broad, red horizontal indented, pointing up three times to the two hearts above and twice down to the one below. [3] In the light of our belief in the Triune God, Newman’s coat of arms speaks to us: The three hearts may be understood as a reference to the three Persons of the Triune God, the golden background of the shield as referring to the glory and the mystery of the Holy Trinity. God, who “lives in unapproachable light” (1Tim 6:16), was revealed to his creatures, Newman preaches, through God the Son “from without” and through “God the Holy Ghost, by inward communications” [4].

   

             The Coat of Arms of St John Newman

[3]In heraldic parlance: Blazon: or, a fasce dancette gules (composed of three chevrons) between three heart gules. There are three differences between Newman’s coat of arms and his father’s: Newman uses one only of the two halves of the original crest; his shield has the form of a heart and not of a spade as the one of his father; and he shortens the zigzag line to three chevrons.
[4] J.H. Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons, uniform edition, vol. II, 19, p. 217.

                                     

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