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| | The Auxiliary Bishop's Coat of Arms |
 | | Jaime Soto, D.D. The Episcopal heraldic achievement, or the bishop's coat of arms, is composed of a shield, with its charges (symbols), a motto scroll and the external ornaments. |
 | | In this case the trees of the grove are orange trees, for His Excellency has been a priest of the Diocese of Orange, that he is now called to serve as an auxiliary bishop, the scallop shell is a traditional representation of St. James, the Apostle, who's name, in a variant, is Jaime. |
 | | The device is completed with the external ornaments which are a gold processional cross, which is placed in back of the shield and which extends above and below the shield, and a pontifical hat, called a "gallero," with its six tassels, in three rows, on either side of the shield, all in green. |
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