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 RCSCC MATTHEW* |
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RCSCC MATTHEW*
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| Blazon: | Or, within a circle of rope knotted with a boatswain's knot in base Gules, a closed purse Purpure charged with a passion cross of the field and secured of the same. |
| Significance: | The corps is named after the MATTHEW, the ship of John Cabot when he discovered Newfoundland. The ship in turn was named after St Matthew the Evangelist, whose accepted ecclessiastical symbol is the purse or money bag, symbolizing his occupation as a publican or tax-collector. In the badge design, the purse represents the name while the cross signifies the status of a saint. It also suggests the cross that was always kept on the quarter-deck of a ship during the period before the Reformation. The circle of rope indicates that the emblem within it represents the name of a ship (as it does to this day -- see the "frame" of the badge), while the knot alludes to the joining of the Old and the New Worlds by Cabot's discoveries. |
| Notes: | RCSCC Matthew, originally in Bonavista, Newfoundland * Corps has closed |