Diocese of Winona Coat of Arms

These are composed of a red field on which is placed a silver (white) cross and on the cross is placed a blue lozenge (diamond) charged with a silver rose. The Indian name "Winona" has been translated "fairest daughter of the tribe." To Catholics, this description is, at once, fulfilled by Our Lady; and her fairest symbol, the rose, has been placed on a lozenge (used instead of a shield to signify the arms of a virgin or a widow) to heraldically represent the name of the diocese and its see city.