Although the College of Cardinals is the most prestigious and venerable body at the heart of the Catholic Church, no consolidated work on its members has appeared in well over 150 years, and at this time there is not even an authoritative roll of its members. Similarly there is no authoritative source on the coats-of arms used by the members of the College.
It has taken the author some thirty years to unearth all the coats-of arms used. Even now a handful have not been located, if any trace of them still exists. The work has been researched in the Vatican Library and Archives, the Bibliotheque National in Paris, the British Museum Library, and in church archives on all continents. The work has been fully illustrated by the author, giving full entitlements for each cardinal, including civil entitlements where they apply.
A work of this nature is a unique record of the College and is designed as the ultimate source book for the College, both from a biographical and heraldic perspective.
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