I had the opportunity to present Bishop Myron Cotta with a new rendering of his coat of arms on the occasion of his appointment to the Diocese of Stockton. Fr. Guy Selvester critiques the design at his excellent blog here, and while I agree with his comments on the design,Continue Reading
I was commissioned by a recently ordained priest to design a new coat of arms that incorporated his family’s traditional armorial bearings. design and rendering: Lawrence KlimeckiContinue Reading
On August 10, 2012, Bishop Richard J. Malone was installed as the fourteenth bishop of Buffalo N.Y design: Paul Sullivan rendering: Lawrence KlimeckiContinue Reading
On July 18, Bishop (Archbishop designate) Samuel Aquila will be installed as the fifth archbishop of the “Mile High Archdiocese” of Denver. design: Paul Sullivan rendering: Lawrence KlimeckiContinue Reading
The Coat-of-Arms is often thought of as reserved to the nobility. But this is simply not the case. According to Archbishop Bruno Heim, members of the middle class and peasantry were adopting armorial bearings as early as the Thirteenth Century. It is primarily the elements that surround the shield, thoseContinue Reading