Further Private Registration: Russian College of Heraldry (Collegium Heraldicum
Russiae), Moscow, on November 29, 2005 (with additional ad-personam adornment).
United States Heraldic Registry, 15th February 2006, #20060215D; American
College of Heraldry 19th May 2006, Reg No. 2876; New England Historical and
Genealogical Society Committee on Heraldry; The Augustan Society December 21,
2007.
The armorial bearings of Angelo Anthony Sedacca were designed
to reflect and honour his own devout Roman Catholicism, the Italian heritage of
his mother, Marie Ann Sedacca (nee Rella); and the Sephardic-Jewish heritage of
his father, Joseph Sedacca. The helm employed is typical of Italian heraldry,
both in design and depiction. Since the armiger’s paternal ancestors were
originally from Spain (before migrating to Turkey), the colours of the Spanish
flag (red and gold) were employed as the primary colours of the achievement. Out
of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the colours of blue and white were also
used. Blue and white also signify respectively the armiger’s loyalty to the
Catholic faith, and his desire to keep the Faith pure. Consequently, he has
chosen the French motto: Defendre et Transmettre la Loi Divine.
The use of the primary colours (red and gold) and the
secondary colours (blue and white) in concert represents and honours the Nine
Worthies, all of whom employed one or more of these colours in the armorial
bearings attributed to them.
The twelve mullets represent the Twelve Tribes of Israel and
the Twelve Apostles (the Pillars of the Catholic Church). The expanded book
represents truth and one's search for it. The book is placed between the ivory
tower of academia and the papal throne to demonstrate that faith and reason are
not contradictory, but complementary; the former reveals divine positive law,
while the latter reveals natural law. This concept is also reinforced at the
base of shield where the crowned Lion of Judah (Jesus Christ) holds an academic
mace; all truth emanates from God and ultimately leads back to Him. The ivory
tower was utilized to express the armiger’s role as a teacher of theology and
foreign language, while the papal throne denotes his fidelity to the Magisterium.
In addition to representing the armiger’s law-enforcement
career and his office as a notary public, the scales of justice symbolize that
all of our actions and decisions must be weighed according to the mandates of
divine law. The swan featured atop the entire achievement represents the
chivalric ideals of love, honour, beauty, and virtue.
The armiger has three (3) sons who will inherit his armorial bearings at the age
of majority; namely: Christopher Michael Sedacca (American College of Heraldry #
2877), Nicholas Anthony Sedacca (American College of Heraldry # 2878), and
Andrew Joseph Sedacca (American College of Heraldry # 3088). The armiger is the
only child of Joseph Sedacca, the eldest of the three (3) children (all sons) of
Solomon Sedacca and Regina Bencangey.
The Armiger is a Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy
Sepulchre of Jerusalem, Member of the Most Venerable Order of St. John and a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.