The Arms of Sean Shriner, KM - The Armorial Register.

Arms: Argent, flanched Gules crusilly of cross crosslets Argent over all a bear rampant regardant Sable armed and langued Azure and charged upon the breast with a key Argent garnished Or and a sword Argent gripped Or in saltire, the sword surmounting the key.

Crest: Upon a Helm with a Wreath Argent and Gules, issuant from an arched bridge Gules masoned Sable above a river Azure, a bear’s gamb Sable armed Azure grasping a cross crosslet fitchee Gules. Mantled Gules doubled Argent.

Motto: Fide Gratia Obedientia.

Badge: The head of a double headed bear erased Sable langued Azure charged upon the neck with a key Argent garnished Or and a sword Argent gripped Or in saltire, the sword surmounting the key.

Standard: In the hoist the arms and on the fly per fess Argent and Gules, charged with the crest between two badges separated by two traverse bands Argent bearing the motto Fide Gratia Obedientia, the whole fringed Argent and Gules.

Assumed: U.S.A. July 17th, 2025.

Designed by The Armorial Register Limited.
Revised and illustrated by Dr. Antonio Salmeron Cabanas, SHA, of Madrid, Spain.

The armiger has followed a career path taking him from the U.S. Secret Service through one of Law Enforcement to working for the Catholic Church with security and administrative responsibilities. The colours red, white and black are not only personal favourites but are also used in the armiger's Church Robes.

Retaining the desired colour scheme the shield flanched crusilly of Cross Crosslets brings in a reference to the Catholic Church. The bear (rampant regardant) which symbolises strength, courage, ferocity, and protection is placed “over all” upon the shield representing an over all responsibility; he is regardant (looking behind him) fulfilling his roll of security and vigilance.

Upon the crest, the bear is represented in simplified form as a bear's Gamb holding a cross upon a walled bridge over a river. The river represents an ever flowing requirement for administration bridged (solidly) by the administrator; the armiger being the administrator represented by the bear holding the cross.

For a badge the double bear’s head again represents vigilance (security). The bear’s heads are charged with a key and a sword in saltire as is the bear in the arms. The key is representative, in equal measures, of administration, security, and religion whilst the sword represents justice and law enforcement.

The key used in the arms of the armiger is similar, but not identical, to those forming a part of the emblem of the Papacy as used by the Catholic Church. St. Peter is said to have received the keys of the kingdom of heaven, “the power of binding and loosing is committed to him, the care of the whole Church and its government is given to him". This one key simply alludes to a responsibility entrusted to the armiger as an administrator within the Catholic Church and nothing more.

The armiger is a Knight of Magistral Grace of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta (SMOM).

The Motto, Fide Gratia Obedientia., translated to Faith, Grace, Obedience.

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The Armorial Bearings of
Sean Shriner, KM