 insuring religious liberties
The Carroll family, an early and influential Catholic family from Colonial Maryland, supplied not only a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, but also the first American Bishop, John Carroll. Both of these men provided regional and national leadership before, during and after the Revolutionary War, and John Carroll's influence is credited with having helped to insure the religious liberties enshrined in the new Federal Constitution, when only four of the thirteen States had chosen to do so in their own.
In honor of this family which so strongly contributed to the forming of Maryland as a State, and to the very character of the Nation, Avalon's Carroll House bears in its coat of arms the Double Headed Eagle (the embodiment of one eagle symbolizing the Gospel of John, and the other the American Eagle), and the Star (a symbol of Christian Hope), emblazoned on a background of BLUE (the color of loyalty, peace, and the heavens).
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