“This is the saying which Mary embroidered on her cloth of estate whilst in prison in England and is the theme running through her life. It symbolises the eternity of life after death and Mary probably drew her inspiration from the emblem adopted by her grandfather-in-law, Fran?ois I of France: the salamander. The Salamander self-ignites at the end of its life, and then rises up from the ashes re-born...”
根據這裏說的，她的這句話的靈感可能來自她嶽父的父親……火蜥蜴在其生命的重點自燃，然後重生於自己的灰燼。