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Registered:
The
International Register
of Arms, 4th September
2023. Registration No.
0679 (Vol.4).
Arms: Per
fess Argent, charged
with a pale Azure, and
Gules, a sword reversed
Argent pommel and guard
Or, the guard charged
with the Tetragrammaton,
the blade flamant
Proper, in base a scroll
Argent charged with the
word Μιχαήλ .
Motto: Dominus
Qui Ductor Vester Est
Ipse Erit Tecum.
Assumed:
Greece 2022.
Arms
designed and illustrated
by the armiger.
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The
flaming sword
symbolizes that of the
family's patron saint
Archangel Michael, and
also the flaming sword
that God used to
protect the gates of
paradise. The guard
of the sword bears the
Tetragrammaton in
Ancient Hebrew.
The red
colour was chosen to
symbolize the
struggles necessary in
someone's life to in
order to succeed, the
white to symbolize a
pure and positive
attitude towards
everything in life and
the blue to symbolize
hope. Purity, a
positive attitude, and
hope being considered
necessary to both
succeed in life and to
keep one's heart and
soul clean.
The
armiger chose to
include a scroll upon
which is written the
name of the family’s
patron saint (which is
also the family
surname) in Byzantine
Greek. Whilst it is
unusual in European
heraldry for words to
be used as a charge,
there are examples,
from a period in
ancient history long
pre-dating the
adoption of modern
heraldry, of Greco
Roman shields bearing
letters as well other
charges. (The Shield
Devices of the Greeks,
Harvard Studies in
Classical Philology,
George Henry Chase.),
The Latin
motto "Dominus
Qui Ductor Vester
Est Ipse Erit
Tecum. "
can be translated as
"The Lord who is your
guide will be with
you".
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