Migrant cross for new Jesuit cardinal

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/10/04/migrants-cross-new-jesuit-cardinal

"The personalized coat of arms, motto and pectoral cross of the newly consecrated Archbishop Michael Czerny, S.J., who will receive a red hat at a consistory for new cardinals on Oct. 5 in Rome, demonstrates his commitment to care for creation and the protection of migrants and refugees.

The cross is made from a piece of a wooden boat used by migrants to cross the Mediterranean to land on the island of Lampedusa. 
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To signify Archbishop Czerny’s ministry since 2017 as undersecretary of the Section for Refugees and Migrants in the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the lower portion of the shield depicts a yellow boat that is carrying a family of four. The official description continues:

The boat evokes a common means for displaced persons to seek a better life in another location. It is also a traditional image of the Church, the Bark of Peter, which has a mandate from Our Lord to ‘receive the foreigner’ (Mt 25:35), regardless of where the Church finds herself. Further, like the symbol of the L’Arche movement, the boat is a reminder of the works of mercy towards all who are excluded, forgotten or disadvantaged.

The water under the boat represents the Atlantic Ocean, which Archbishop Czerny crossed with his family when they immigrated to Canada from Czechoslovakia in 1948.".....(more)