Diœcesis Madisonensis
Madison
Diócesis de Madison
Diocese de Madison
Bistum Madison
Diocesi di Madison
Diecezja Madison
天主教麥迪遜教區
Keuskupan Madison
Епархия Мадисона
Roman Catholic Diocese of Madison
Coat of arms of the Diocese of Madison.svg
Diocese
The arms of the diocese are composed of a field that is wavy bars of silver and blue. This is the traditional heraldic representation for water and the field of "water" is divided by a red cross into four sections to remind us of the lakes of the region around Madison. On the red cross is a fish and this conjunction of symbols is a classic symbolic representation for Saint Raphael, the titular of the Cathedral Church of Madison. Raphael means "healer of God" and his ministrations to men make interesting reading in the Book of Tobit in the Old Testament. The fish recalls the episode where Raphael ordered Tobias to cook a fish to eat but removed the heart, liver and gall for future medicinal use. Later the liver was used by Tobias to drive out the devil, who had slain seven of the previous husbands of Sara, his wife, while the gall was used to restore sight to his blind father.
Counties of Columbia, Dane, Grant, Green, Green Lake, Iowa, Jefferson, Lafayette, Marquette, Rock and Sauk, Wisconsin
Arms was designed and adopted when the diocese was erected
römisch-katholisches Bistum in den Vereinigten Staaten
diocesi della Chiesa cattolica negli Stati Uniti d'America
rooms-katholiek bisdom in de Verenigde Staten
diocèse catholique aux États-Unis
diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States
美国的一个罗马天主教教区
roems-katheliek bisdóm in de Vereinegde Staote vaan Amerika
wilayah administratif gereja di Amerika Serikat
diecezja katolicka w Stanach Zjednoczonych
giáo phận Công giáo
St. Bernard Catholic Church
The arms of the diocese are composed of a field that is wavy bars of silver and blue on which a red cross with a fish is present
Flag of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Madison.svg