An important place for my family (Castel Petto) needed a coat of arms, so ... ☺️. Castel Petto means breast castle. The place, like the whole territory, was deeply Christian. In heraldry, the pelican is used for its religious value: as Christ, they thought it was a sacrificial creature. The symbol goes by the name of the ‘vulning pelican’ or the ‘pelican-in-her-piety’ and hearkens back to medieval days ( bestiary myths). Once, it was believed that Pelicans were particularly devoted to their young and that a pelican would wound its BREAST (‘vulning’) to feed its young its blood.