13 - Crest Patch of St. Francis College, Rochestown

13

Crest Patch of St. Francis College, Rochestown

18 cm x 18 cm; cloth

A cloth patch of the old crest of St. Francis College, Rochestown, County Cork. The old crest relied heavily on traditional Franciscan imagery to highlight the school’s 1884 founding date and religious ethos. The design features the hand of Saint Francis bearing the stigmata illustrating his deep spiritual identity with Christ and his suffering. The crest is further adorned with a heraldic helmet symbolizing Saint Francis’s early life as a knight and prisoner of war, alongside the traditional Latin motto ‘Deus meus et omnia’ (My God and my All), representing his detachment from worldly wealth and total devotion to poverty. An alternative crest design is now used by the College.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition