Assumption High School - Crusader Purple Raider Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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The ‘ ’New Seal” of Assiimpl ion College rriiiK “new seal of Assimption College which appears above, was created in 1920, by the Reverend John 1 lonier, a member of the college faculty, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the college department by the Basilian hatliers. Born and educated in England, Father Plomcr wus acquainted at first hand with the traditions of heraldic symbolism. The shield tells briefly the origin and development of the college. The lower left-hand panel pictures the conversion of the Indians who occupied these shore when the missionaries first arrived. Chief “Big Turtle” of the Hurons, after his own baptism, helped the missionaries to convert the rest of the tribe. This is sym¬ bolized by his carrying the cross from wigwam to wigwam. It was he. too, who gave to the Church the prop- rrty on which the college now stands, a title later confirmed by the Crown when the county was surveyed. The lower right-hand panel epitomizes Christianity and the life of Christ from the star of Bethlehem to the Cross of Calvary. I lie upper left-hand paiic-l containing the moiiograrnmed A. M., the initial letters of the “Ave Maria,” commends us to Mary, the Mother of God. and the patroness of the college. The upper right- hand panel, with the open book has a twofold significance. Taken from the coat of arms of the Basilian 1 utlicrs. it symbolizes the work of education and tells us that the college is in their charge. At the same time it represents our affiliation with the University of W estern Ontario wliose coat of arms also contains an open hook. Entered in the book are the closing words of the Ave Maria, asking our Holy Patroness for Her inter¬ cession “now and in the hour of death.” The scroll surrounding the shiel d presents, in the college colors of purple and white, the motto of all Baftilian-condiictcd schools: “ I each me goodness, (self k-discipline and knowledge.”