Rev. Dr. Major John Banas Brillantes, S.T.D.

Registered: The International Register of Arms, 7th January 2008. Registration No. 0133.

Arms: Azure, an Eagle displayed Or charged on the breast with an escutcheon Gules a cross ensigned with a coronet and in chief an estoile of eight points between two fleur-de-lis also Or.

Crest: A demi lion Or holding with its dexter arms a cross of St. James Or.

Motto: Dominus Fortitudo

Private Registration: Chronicler of Arms of Castilla and León, H.E. Don Alfonso de Ceballos-Escalera y Gila, Marquis de La Floresta, No. 8/2006.

Private Registration: American College of Heraldry on 25 August 2005 under the name of the armiger’s father, Eduardo Pelagio Brillantes y Balderas Madrid.

The arms passed to the present armiger, as principal heir, after the death of his father on 25 June 2006.

The present armiger is a Catholic Chaplain in the Armed Forces of the Philippines with the rank of Major. He achieved his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy at St. Vincent Ferrer Seminary in Iloilo City, Philippines in 1991; his theological studies at St. Joseph Regional Seminary in the same city in 1996; and was ordained to the Order of Priesthood on 12 December 1996. Commissioned in the Reserve Force of the Armed Forces of the Philippines on 16 January 1998 and later in the regular force on 3 February 2000. He finished his military training at the Combat Arms School of the Philippine Army in Fort Magsaysay, Palayan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines in 1998.

The armiger took his Licentiate Degree in Moral Theology at the Pontificia Universita della Santa Croce (of the Prelature of Opus Dei) in Rome, Italy in June 2002 and took his Doctoral Degree in the same field at the same Pontifical university in Rome in 2006 after successfully defending his Doctoral Dissertation entitled "The Fundamental Moral Principle for Armed Service: Defense of Human Life and Dignity."

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