Yesterday while I was watching
EWTN waiting for the coverage of the Popes address at Catholic University I saw most of an episode of
Defenders of the Faith in Word and Deed about
Pope Benedict XVI. It had a very interesting story about the Popes coat of arms in it.Which was also his Coat of Arms as archbishop of Munich and
Freising.
His Coat of Arms includes:
The Moor of
Freising - Which I think is from the ancient Coat of Arms from
Freising. Pope Benedict (then Cardinal
Ratzinger) thought this was a good sign of the universality of the church.
The Pilgrim’s Seashell - Which has to do with
a story about Saint Augustine. He was walking along the seashore when he saw a boy trying to empty the sea into a hole he had dug in the sand.When Saint Augustine heard what he was trying to do he told him that it was impossible. The boy answered "Not more impossible than that thy human mind should understand the mind of God,"
Here is the whole story from a book which is on the Baldwin Project called
In God's Garden by
Amy Steedman on the Baldwin Project.
...and The Bear of
Corbinian - Bishop
Corbinian was traveling to Rome when a bear came out of the woods and attacked the bishop's horse. The horse was too injured to carry Bishop
Corbinian and his pack the rest of the way to Rome, so Bishop
Corbinian put the pack on the bear's back and made him carry it the rest of the way to Rome where Bishop
Corbinian let the bear go.
By the way,
here is an
interesting page on
EWTN about Pope
Benedict's Coat of Arms.
Gus
(Gus, one of our guest Papal Visit Bloggers, is a 12 year old homeschooler).
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