If I get a direct threat or am told to leave, then I will go. But if it is my destiny that I should give my life here, then so be it.
The personal coat of arms of the Most Reverend Paul S. Coakley is particularly symbolic of his steadfast love and devotion to Jesus Christ in the Eucharist and to his veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It also carefully honors both his French maternal heritage, noted by the fleur de lys, and his paternal Irish birthright, noted by the ermine, a heraldic emblem of the Coakley family in Ireland for centuries.
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If I get a direct threat or am told to leave, then I will go. But if it is my destiny that I should give my life here, then so be it.
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