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Saint

Michael

the Archangel
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Archangel Michael defeats Satan, painting by Guido Reni (between 1630-1635)
Archangel
Prince (Commander) of the Heavenly Host
Guardian of the Church
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Major shrineMont Saint-Michel, Sanctuary of Saint Michael the Archangel
Feast
Attributesbanner, scales, weighing souls, sword, slaying Satan or a dragon
PatronageGuardian of the Catholic Church,[1] Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy,[2][3], Germany, Israel[4] Normandy, France, Kyiv, Ukraine, Laoang, dying people, poor souls,[5] bankers, grocers, Police, especially Police Officers, Military, especially military personnel and others, et cetera.

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Michael,[a] also called Archangel Michael or Michael the Taxiarch,[6] is an archangel and the warrior of God in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam while additionally being venerated as a saint in some Christian traditions.[3][7] The earliest surviving mentions of his name are in third- and second-century BC Jewish works, often but not always apocalyptic, where he is the chief of the angels and archangels, and he is the guardian prince of Israel and is responsible for the care of the people of Israel.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. Christianity conserved nearly all the Jewish traditions concerning him,Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. and he is mentioned explicitly in Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".,[8] where he does battle with Satan,Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. and in the Epistle of Jude, where the archangel and the devil dispute over the body of Moses.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

Old Testament and Deuterocanon

The Book of EnochLua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. lists Michael as one of seven archangels (the remaining names are Uriel, Raguel, Raphael, Sariel, Gabriel, and Remiel), who in the Book of Tobit "stand ready and enter before the glory of the Page Template:Smallcaps/styles.css has no content.Lord".Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. The fact that Michael is introduced implies the knowledge of him and the other named angels.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. He is mentioned again in the last chapters of the Book of Daniel, a Jewish apocalypse composed in the second century BC, in which a man clothed in linen (never identified, but matching a description given to John in Revelation regarding the Alpha and Omega) tells Daniel that he and "Michael, your prince" are engaged in a battle with the "prince of Persia", after which, at the end-time, "Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise".Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

Enoch was instrumental in establishing the pre-eminent place of Michael among the angels and archangels, and in later Jewish works, he is said to be their chief, mediating the Torah (the Law of God), and standing at the right hand of the throne of God.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. In the traditions of the Qumran community, he defends or leads the people of God in the eschatological (i.e., end-time) battle.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. In other writings, he is responsible for the care of Israel and acts as commander of the heavenly armies; he is Israel's advocate contesting Satan's claim to the body of Moses; he intercedes between God and humanity and serves as High Priest in the heavenly sanctuary; and he accompanies the souls of the righteous dead to Paradise.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

New Testament

The seven archangels (or four, as traditions differ but always include Michael) were associated with the branches of the menorah, the sacred seven-branched lampstand in the Temple as the seven spirits before the throne of God, and this is reflected in the Book of Revelation Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". (“Coming from the throne are flashes of lightning and rumblings and peals of thunder, and in front of the throne burn seven flaming torches, which are the seven spirits of God,” – NRSVue).Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. Michael is mentioned explicitly in Revelation 12:7–12, where he does battle with Satan and casts him out of heaven so that he no longer has access to God as accuser (his formal role in the Old Testament).Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. The fall of Satan at the coming of Jesus marks the separation of the New Testament from Judaism.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. In Luke Script error: No such module "Bibleverse"., Jesus tells Peter that Satan has asked God for permission to “sift” the disciples, the goal being to accuse them, but the accusation is opposed by Jesus, who thus takes on the role played by angels, and especially by Michael, in Judaism.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

Michael is mentioned by name for the second time in the Epistle of Jude, which is an impassioned plea for the believers to engage in battle against the incursion of the error.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. In verses 9–10, the author denounces the heretics by contrasting them with the archangel Michael, who, in disputing with Satan over the body of Moses, “did not presume to pronounce the verdict of 'slander' but said, 'The Lᴏʀᴅ rebuke you!'”Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

Judaism

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The name Michael in Hebrew

According to rabbinic tradition, Michael acted as the advocate of Israel, and sometimes had to fight with the princes of the other nations (Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".) and particularly with the angel Samael, Israel's accuser. Their enmity dates from the time Samael was thrown from heaven and tried to drag Michael down with him, necessitating God's intervention.[9][10]

The idea that Michael was the advocate of the Jews became so prevalent that in spite of the rabbinical prohibition against appealing to angels as intermediaries between God and his people, he held a place in the Jewish liturgy: "When a man is in need he must pray directly to God, and neither to Michael nor to Gabriel."[11] Jeremiah addresses a prayer to him.[12]

The rabbis declare that Michael entered into his role of defender at the time of the biblical patriarchs. Rabbi Eliezer ben Jacob said he rescued Abraham from the furnace into which he had been thrown by Nimrod (Midrash Genesis Rabbah xliv. 16). Some say he was the "one that had escaped" (Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".), who told Abraham that Lot had been taken captive (Midrash Pirke R. El.), and who protected Sarah from defilement by Abimelech.

Michael prevented Isaac from sacrifice by his father by substituting a ram in his place. He saved Jacob, while yet in his mother's womb, from death by Samael.[13] He later prevented Laban from harming Jacob.(Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer, xxxvi).

The midrash Exodus Rabbah holds that Michael exercised his function of advocate of Israel at the time of the Exodus and destroyed Sennacherib's army.[14]

Gnosticism

In the Secret Book of John, a second-century text found in the Nag Hammadi codices of Gnosticism, Michael is placed in control of the demons who help Yaldabaoth create Adam, along with six others named Uriel, Asmenedas, Saphasatoel, Aarmouriam, Richram, and Amiorps.[15] According to Origen of Alexandria in his work Against Celsus, Michael was represented as a lion on the Ophite Diagram.[16]

Christianity

Early Christian views and devotions

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St. Michael weighing souls during the Last Judgement, Antiphonale Cisterciense (15th century), Abbey Bibliotheca, Rein Abbey, Austria

From the second-century onward, evidence exists attesting early Christian identifications of Michael as identical with the Christ particularly in works concerned with or by non-proto-orthodox groups such Pseudo-Cyprian's De Centesima, Epiphanius's description of the Ebionites and the sect of the Elcasaites, Tertullian's attack on Valentinian Christology, and certain magical texts, especially the Testament of Solomon.[17] The Shepherd of Hermas, possibly Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1152, the Gospel of the Hebrews, the pseudo-Clementine writings, and Epiphanius's Panarion[b] appear to share this view.[18] Other second- and third-century texts show that identifying Christ with an angel was not uncommon at the time—these include the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Nicodemus, the Testament of Dan, and the Epistle to Diognetus.[19] These beliefs likely derived from similar pre-Christian Jewish beliefs, such as those found in the Prayer of Joseph and the beliefs of the Magarites.[20]

Epiphanius of Salamis (c. 310 – c. 320 – 403) in his Coptic-Arabic Hexaemeron additionally referred to Michael as a replacement of Satan. Accordingly, after Satan fell, Michael was appointed to the function Satan served when he was still one of the noble angels.[21]

Byzantine tradition attributed two Bosporus-shore sanctuaries of the Archangel Michael to Constantine. The first at Hestia/Anaplous—plausibly in the area of modern Arnavutköy, about 35 stadia by sea and over 70 by land from Constantinople. The second at Sosthenion, commonly identified with modern İstinye. Sozomen is the earliest witness for the Hestia site, while John Malalas places a Michaelion at Sosthenion and embeds it in a foundation legend that repurposes a pre-existing pagan shrine tied to the Argonauts. Later sources often use "Anaplous" for the wider western Bosporus shore, which helps explain why Hestia/Anaplous and Sosthenion are sometimes conflated in the literature.[22][23] He was syncretically identified with the attributes of the god Attis in Phrygia and thus associated with pre-Christian healing springs in Phrygia, his main cult site was in Chonae.[24][25]

A painting of the Archangel slaying a serpent became a major art piece at the Michaelion after Constantine defeated Licinius near there in 324. This contributed to the standard iconography that developed of the Archangel Michael as a warrior saint slaying a dragon.[26] The Michaelion was a magnificent church and in time became a model for hundreds of other churches in Eastern Christianity; these spread devotions to the Archangel.[27]

In the fourth century, Saint Basil the Great's homily (De Angelis) placed Saint Michael over all the angels. He was called "Archangel" because he heralds other angels, the title Ἀρχαγγέλος (archangelos) applied to him in Jude 1:9.[28] Into the sixth century, the view of Michael as a healer continued in Rome; after a plague, the sick slept at night in the church of Castel Sant'Angelo (dedicated to him for saving Rome), waiting for his manifestation.[29]

In the sixth century, the growth of devotions to Michael in the Western Church was expressed by the feasts dedicated to him, as recorded in the Leonine Sacramentary. The seventh-century Gelasian Sacramentary included the feast "S. Michaelis Archangeli", as did the eighth-century Gregorian Sacramentary. Some of these documents refer to a Basilica Archangeli (no longer extant) on via Salaria in Rome.[28]

The angelology of Pseudo-Dionysius, which was widely read as of the sixth century, gave Michael a rank in the hierarchy of angels. Later, in the thirteenth century, others such as Bonaventure believed him to be Prince of the Seraphim, the first of the nine angelic orders. According to Thomas Aquinas (Summa Ia. 113.3), he is Prince of the last and lowest choir, the Angels.[28][30]

Catholicism

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Second-class relic stone of Saint Michael the Archangel from Monte Gargano, Italy
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Archangel Michael frees souls from purgatory, by Jacopo Vignali, 17th century

Catholics often refer to Michael as “Holy Michael, the Archangel”[31] or “Saint Michael”. He is generally referred to in Christian litanies as “Saint Michael”, as in the Litany of the Saints. In the shortened version said at the Easter Vigil, he alone of the angels and archangels is mentioned by name, omitting Saints Gabriel and Raphael.[32]

In Roman Catholic teachings, Saint Michael has four main roles or offices.[28] His first role is the leader of the Army of God and the leader of celestial forces in triumphing over the powers of Hell.[33] He is viewed as the angelic model for the virtues of the “spiritual warrior”, his conflict with evil taken as “the battle within”.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

The second and third roles of Michael in Catholic teachings deal with death. In his second role, he is the angel of death, carrying the souls of Christians to Heaven. Catholic prayers often refer to this role of Michael. In his third role, he weighs souls on his perfectly balanced scales, a common object he holds in art.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

In his fourth role, Saint Michael, the special patron of the Chosen People in the Old Testament, is also Guardian of the Church. Saint Michael was revered by the military orders of knights during the Middle Ages. Moreover, doubtless for the same motive he was considered the patron saint of a number of cities and countries.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.[34]

Catholic tradition includes also elements such as the Prayer to Saint Michael, which specifically asks the saint to “defend” the faithful from evil.[35][36][37] The Chaplet of Saint Michael consists of nine salutations, one for each choir of angels.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.[38]

Saint Michael the Archangel prayer

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Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy

The Eastern Orthodox accord Michael the title Archistrategos, or “Supreme Commander of the Heavenly Hosts”.[39] The Eastern Orthodox pray to their guardian angels and above all, to Michael and Gabriel.[40]

The Eastern Orthodox have always had strong devotions to angels. In contemporary times, they are referred to by the term of “Bodiless Powers”.[41] A number of feasts dedicated to Archangel Michael are celebrated by the Eastern Orthodox throughout the year.[41]

Archangel Michael is mentioned in a number of Eastern Orthodox hymns and prayer, and his icons are widely used within Eastern Orthodox churches.[42] In many Eastern Orthodox icons, Christ is accompanied by a number of angels, Michael being a predominant figure among them.[42]

In Russia, many monasteries, cathedrals, court and merchant churches are dedicated to the Chief Commander Michael; most Russian cities have a church or chapel dedicated to the Archangel Michael.[43][44]

In Ukraine, the Archangel Michael is the patron saint of the capital city, Kyiv. He became popular since the time of Prince Vsevolod of Kievan Rus'.

While in the Serbian Orthodox Church Saint Sava has a special role as the establisher of its autocephaly and the largest Belgrade church is devoted to him, the capital Belgrade's Orthodox cathedral, the see church of the patriarch, is devoted to Archangel Michael (in Serbian: Арханђел Михаило / Arhanđel Mihailo).

The place of Michael in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is as a saintly intercessor. He is the one who presents to God the prayers of the just, who accompanies the souls of the dead to heaven, who defeats the devil. He is celebrated liturgically on the 12th of each Coptic month.[45] In Alexandria, a church was dedicated to him in the early fourth century on the 12th of the month of Paoni. The 12th of the month of Hathor is the celebration of Michael's appointment in heaven, where Michael became the chief of the angels.[46]

Protestantism

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West window showing Michael in armour, Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania) United States; memorial to the dead of the First World War
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Statue at St. Michael's Church, Hamburg

Protestants recognize Michael as an archangel. The Anglican and Methodist traditions recognize four archangels: Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, and Uriel.[47][48] The controversial Anglican bishop Robert Clayton (d. 1758) proposed that Michael was the Logos and Gabriel the Holy Spirit.[49] Controversy over Clayton's views led the government to order his prosecution, but he died before his scheduled examination.[50][51]

The Lutheran Churches of St. Michael's Church, Hamburg and St. Michael's Church, Hildesheim are named for Michael. In Bach's time, the annual feast of Michael and All the Angels on 29 September was regularly celebrated with a festive service in Lutheran churches, for which Bach composed several cantatas, for example the chorale cantata Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130 in 1724, Es erhub sich ein Streit, BWV 19, in 1726 and Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg, BWV 149, in 1728 or 1729.

Like the aforementioned early Christian groups, many Protestant theologians identify a relationship, (e.g. typological or identical), between Michael and Christ in some[c][52] or all Biblical mentions of the name[53][54] including:

Martin Luther[55][56] Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg,[57] Andrew Willet[58] Herman Witsius[59] W. L. Alexander, Jacobus Ode,[60] Campegius Vitringa,[61] Philip Melanchthon,[62] Hugh Broughton,[63] Franciscus Junius,[64] Hävernick[65] Amandus Polanus,[66] Johannes Oecolampadius,[67] Samuel Horsely,[68] William Kincaid[69] John Calvin[70] Isaac Watts,[71] John Brown,[72] and James Wood.[73]

Charles Spurgeon once stated that Jesus is "the true Michael"[74] and "the only Archangel".[75]

John Gill comments on Jude 9, "'Yet Michael the archangel ...' By whom is meant, not a created angel, but an eternal one, the Lord Jesus Christ ..."[76]

Seventh-day Adventists

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Many scholars belonging to the Seventh-day Adventists believe that "Michael" is but one of the many titles applied to the pre-existent Christ, or Son of God. According to Adventists, such a view does not in any way conflict with the belief in the full deity and eternal preexistence of Jesus Christ, nor does it in the least disparage his person and work.[77] According to Adventist theology, Michael was considered the "eternal Word", and the one by whom all things were created. The Word was then born incarnate as Jesus.[78]

They believe that name "Michael" signifies "One Who Is Like God" and that as the "Archangel" or "chief or head of the angels" he led the angels and thus the statement in Revelation 12:7–9 identifies/refers to Jesus as Michael.[79]

Restorationism

Jehovah's Witnesses

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They believe the prominent roles assigned to Michael at Daniel 12:1,[86] Revelation 12:7,[87] Revelation 19:14,[88] and Revelation 16[89] are identical to Jesus' roles, being the one chosen to lead God's people and as the only one who "stands up", identifying the two as the same spirit being. Because they identify Michael with Jesus, he is therefore considered the first and greatest of all God's heavenly sons, God's chief messenger, who takes the lead in vindicating God's sovereignty, sanctifying his name, fighting the wicked forces of Satan and protecting God's covenant people on earth.[90] Jehovah's Witnesses also identify Michael with the "Angel of the Lord" who led and protected the Israelites in the wilderness.[91] Their earliest teachings stated that Archangel Michael was not to be worshipped.[92]

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Islam

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Muhammad ibn Muhammad Shakir Ruzmah-'i Nathani - The Archangel Michael - Walters W65946B - Full Page

In Islam, Michael, or Mīkāʾīl,[97] is one of the four archangels along with Jibril (Gabriel, with whom he is often paired), ʾIsrāfīl (trumpeter angel) and ʿAzrāʾīl (angel of death).[98] He is mentioned only once in the Quran, along with Gabriel in Quran 2:98.[99] The verse is understood as a rejection of the claim of the Jews of Medina stating that Gabriel is the enemy of Michael.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. In hadith and tafsir, the meaning of the term is occasionally interpreted as "ʿabd Allāh" (Servant of God).[100]

In further Islamic literature, Michael is associated with mercy. He asks God for forgiveness for humans and is one of the first angels who obeyed God's orders to bow before Adam.[101][102] From the tears of Michael, angels of mercy are created as his helpers.[103] Like Gabriel, with whom he is often mentioned together, Michael is also a messenger. While Gabriel delivers messages from heaven to humans, Michael delivers messages to the angelic world.[104] As the angel to effectuate God's providence he is also associated with natural phenomena and causes rain upon the lands.[102] The latter function is also attested among modern writers, such as Sayyid Qutb.[105] Unlike Christian tradition, Michael is rarely portrayed as a warrior-angel, with a few references to the Battle of Badr by Suyuti as an exception.[106]

The Miraj literature occasionally mentions both Gabriel and Michael as two angels who showed Muhammad Paradise and Hell.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.[107] However, he does not feature prominently and some accounts do not mention him at all.[108] Prayers concerning Michael appear in some devotional literature, but usually in conjunction with the other three archangels.[109]Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. He is mentioned in a Shia supplication (dua), reportedly handed down by the sixth Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, in the prayers for blessings for the Bearers of the Throne.[110][111][112]

Bahá'í Faith

The archangel Michael seems to have never been mentioned publicly by Baha'u'llah, 'Abdu'l-Baha, Shoghi Effendi, or even the Universal House of Justice. Bahá'í publications interpreting the Book of Revelation from the New Testament say Baha'u'llah was a chief prince of Persia[113][114] foretold as Michael who would win "final victory over the dragon". Or, Michael, "One like God", is thought to be Baha'u'llah, as archangel Michael is thought to be an emanation of Hod or "glory" in Jewish Mysticism[115] – because "Baha'u'llah" means splendor or glory of God.

Feasts

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Archangel Michael at a Portuguese feast in Cabeceiras de Basto

In the General Roman Calendar, the Anglican Calendar of Saints, and the Lutheran Calendar of Saints, the archangel's feast is celebrated on Michaelmas Day, 29 September. The day is also considered the feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, in the General Roman Calendar and the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels according to the Church of England.[116]

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Saint Michael's principal feast day is 8 November (those that use the Julian calendar celebrate it on what in the Gregorian calendar is now 21 November), honouring him along with the rest of the "Bodiless Powers of Heaven" (i.e. angels) as their Supreme Commander (Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the Other Bodiless Powers), and the Miracle at Chonae is commemorated on 6 September.[117][118]

In the calendar of the Church of England diocese of Truro, 8 May is the feast of St. Michael, Protector of Cornwall. The archangel Michael is one of the three patron saints of Cornwall.[119] The feast of the Appearing of S. Michael the Archangel is observed by Anglo-Catholics on 8 May.[120] From medieval times until 1960 it was also observed on that day in the Roman Catholic Church; the feast commemorates the archangel's apparition on Mount Gargano in Italy.[121]

In the Coptic Orthodox Church, the main feast day in 12 Hathor and 12 Paoni, and he is celebrated liturgically on the 12th of each Coptic month.

Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels is commemorated on 29 September in ROCOR Western Rite.[122]

Apparition of Saint Michael in 492 on Mount Gargano is commemorated on 8 May[123] and Dedication of Saint Michael the Archangel is commemorated on 29 September (Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate).[124]

Dedication of Saint Michael sanctuary Mont Saint-Michel by Saint Aubert of Avranches is commemorated on 16 October.[125]

On 7 April, the Oriental Orthodox Church commemorates the deliverance of prophet Jeremiah from prison by Michael.[126]

Patronages and orders

In late medieval Christianity, Michael, together with Saint George, became the patron saint of chivalry and is now also considered the patron saint of police officers, paramedics and the military.[34]Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

Since the victorious Battle of Lechfeld against the Hungarians in 955, Michael was the patron saint of the Holy Roman Empire and the Patron of the Germans.

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Statue of St Michael at the former seat of the Bavarian Military Order of Saint Michael in the Electoral Palace, Bonn, Germany

In mid- to late fifteenth century, France was one of only four courts in Western Christendom without an order of knighthood.[127] Later in the fifteenth century, Jean Molinet glorified the primordial feat of arms of the archangel as "the first deed of knighthood and chivalrous prowess that was ever achieved."[128] Thus Michael was the natural patron of the first chivalric order of France, the Order of Saint Michael of 1469.[127] In the British honours system, a chivalric order founded in 1818 is also named for these two saints, the Order of St Michael and St George (see also: Order of Saint Michael).[129]

Prior to 1878, the Scapular of St. Michael the Archangel could be worn as part of a Roman Catholic Archconfraternity. Presently, enrollment is authorized as this holy scapular remains as one of the 18 approved by the Church.

Apart from his being a patron of warriors, the sick and the suffering also consider Archangel Michael their patron saint.[130] Based on the legend of his eighth-century apparition at Mont Saint-Michel, France, the Archangel is the patron of mariners in this famous sanctuary.[28] After the evangelisation of Germany, where mountains were often dedicated to pagan gods, Christians placed many mountains under the patronage of the Archangel, and numerous mountain chapels of St. Michael appeared all over Germany.[28]

Similarly, the Sanctuary of St. Michel (San Migel Aralarkoa), the oldest Christian building in Navarre (Spain), lies at the top of a hill on the Aralar Range, and harbours Carolingian remains. St. Michel is an ancient devotion of Navarre and eastern Gipuzkoa, revered by the Basques, shrouded in legend, and held as a champion against paganism and heresy. It came to symbolize the defense of Catholicism, as well as Basque tradition and values during the early twentieth century.[131]

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Coat of arms of Brussels
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Coat of arms of Kyiv

He has been the patron saint of Brussels since the Middle Ages.[132] The city of Arkhangelsk in Russia is named for the Archangel. Ukraine and its capital Kyiv also consider Michael their patron saint and protector.[133]

In Linlithgow, Scotland, St. Michael has been the patron saint of the town since the thirteenth century, with St. Michael's Parish Church being originally constructed in 1134. Since the fourteenth century, Saint Michael has been the patron saint of Dumfries in Scotland, where a church dedicated to him was built at the southern end of the town, on a mound overlooking the River Nith.[134]

An Anglican sisterhood dedicated to Saint Michael under the title of the Community of St Michael and All Angels was founded in 1851.[135] The Congregation of Saint Michael the Archangel (CSMA), also known as the Michaelite Fathers, is a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church founded in 1897. The Canons Regular of the Order of St Michael the Archangel (OSM) are an Order of professed religious within the Anglican Church in North America, the North American component of the Anglican realignment movement.[136]

The city of Arkhangelsk, Russia, and the federal subject Arkhangelsk Oblast are named after Michael the Archangel.

In the United States military, Saint Michael is considered to be a patron of paratroopers and, in particular, the 82nd Airborne Division.[137] One of the first battles where the unit first was combat christened is the Battle of Saint-Mihiel during World War I.

The beret insignia of the French paratroopers is a winged arm grasping a dagger, representing Saint Michael.[138] Saint Michael is the patronus of 9th Paratroopers Assault Regiment "Col Moschin" and the Polizia di Stato. Saint Michael (Template:Langx) is patron of Croatian Police and Croatian Army, his feast day being also celebrated as the Police day in Croatia.[139]

Legends

Judaism

There is a legend which seems to be of Jewish origin, and which was adopted by the Copts, to the effect that Michael was first sent by God to bring Nebuchadnezzar (c. 600 BC) against Jerusalem, and that Michael was afterward very active in freeing his nation from Babylonian captivity.[140] According to midrash Genesis Rabbah, Michael saved Hananiah and his companions from the fiery furnace.[141] Michael was active in the time of Esther: "The more Haman accused Israel on earth, the more Michael defended Israel in heaven".[142] It was Michael who reminded Ahasuerus that he was Mordecai's debtor;[143] and there is a legend that Michael appeared to the high priest Hyrcanus, promising him assistance.[144]

According to Legends of the Jews, archangel Michael was the chief of a band of angels who questioned God's decision to create man on Earth. The entire band of angels, except for Michael, was then consumed by fire.[145]

Christianity

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A 12th-century icon of the Miracle at Chonae, from Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai

The Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates the Miracle at Chonae on September 6.[146] The pious legend surrounding the event states that John the Apostle, when preaching nearby, foretold the appearance of Michael at Cheretopa near Lake Salda, where a healing spring appeared soon after the Apostle left; in gratitude for the healing of his daughter, one pilgrim built a church on the site.[147] Local pagans, who are described as jealous of the healing power of the spring and the church, attempt to drown the church by redirecting the river, but the Archangel, "in the likeness of a column of fire", split the bedrock to open up a new bed for the stream, directing the flow away from the church.[148] The legend is supposed to have predated the actual events, but the fifth- to seventh-century texts that refer to the miracle at Chonae formed the basis of specific paradigms for "properly approaching" angelic intermediaries for more effective prayers within the Christian culture.[149]

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An 18th-century statue of a triumphant Saint Michael, enshrined as the patron of Bacoor, Cavite, Philippines. The town fiesta was originally on May 8, the Feast of the Apparition at Mount Gargano.

The legend of the apparition of the Archangel at around AD 490 at a secluded hilltop cave on Monte Gargano in Italy gained a following among the Lombards in the immediate period thereafter, and by the eighth century, pilgrims arrived from as far away as England.[153] The Tridentine calendar included a feast of the apparition on 8 May, the date of the 663 victory over the Greek Neapolitans that the Lombards of Manfredonia attributed to Saint Michael.[28] The feast remained in the Roman liturgical calendar until removed in the revision of Pope John XXIII. The Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo at Gargano is a major Catholic pilgrimage site.

According to Roman legends, Archangel Michael appeared with a sword over the mausoleum of Hadrian while a devastating plague persisted in Rome, in apparent answer to the prayers of Pope Gregory I the Great (c. 590–604) that the plague should cease. After the plague ended, in honor of the occasion, the pope called the mausoleum "Castel Sant'Angelo" (Castle of the Holy Angel), the name by which it is still known.[29]

According to Norman legend, Michael is said to have appeared to St Aubert, Bishop of Avranches, in 708, giving instruction to build a church on the rocky islet now known as Mont Saint-Michel.[154][155][156] In 960 the Duke of Normandy commissioned a Benedictine abbey on the mount, and it remains a major pilgrimage site.[156]

A Portuguese Carmelite nun, Antónia d'Astónaco, reported an apparition and private revelation of the Archangel Michael who had told to this devoted Servant of God, in 1751, that he would like to be honored, and God glorified, by the praying of nine special invocations. These nine invocations correspond to invocations to the nine choirs of angels and origins the famous Chaplet of Saint Michael. This private revelation and prayers were approved by Pope Pius IX in 1851.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.[157]

From 1961 to 1965, four young schoolgirls had reported several apparitions of the Archangel Michael in the small village of Garabandal, Spain. At Garabandal, the apparitions of the Archangel Michael were mainly reported as announcing the arrivals of the Virgin Mary. The Catholic Church has neither approved nor condemned the Garabandal apparitions.[158]

In literature, music, and art

Literature

In the 1667 English epic poem Paradise Lost by John Milton, Michael commands the army of angels loyal to God against the rebel forces of Satan. Armed with a sword from God's armory, he bests Satan in personal combat, wounding his side.[159]

In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's translation of the mid-thirteenth century The Golden Legend, Michael is one of the angels of the seven planets. He is the angel of Mercury.[160]

Music

Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Praelium Michaelis Archangeli factum in coelo cum dracone, H.410, oratorio for soloists, double chorus, strings and continuo (1683).[161]

Artistic depictions

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Tenth-century gold and enamel Byzantine icon of St Michael, in the treasury of the St Mark's Basilica

In Christian art, Archangel Michael may be depicted alone or with other angels such as Gabriel. Some depictions with Gabriel date back to the eighth century, e.g. the stone casket at Notre Dame de Mortain church in France.[162]

The widely reproduced image of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, an icon of the Cretan school, depicts Michael on the left carrying the lance and sponge of the crucifixion of Jesus, with Gabriel on the right side of Mary and Jesus.[163]

In many depictions, Michael is represented as an angelic warrior, fully armed with helmet, sword, and shield.[28] The shield may bear the Latin inscription Quis ut Deus or the Greek inscription Christos Dikaios Krites or its initials.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. He may be standing over a serpent, a dragon, or the defeated figure of Satan, whom he sometimes pierces with a lance.[28] The iconography of Michael slaying a serpent goes back to the early fourth century, when Emperor Constantine defeated Licinius at the Battle of Adrianople in AD 324, not far from the Michaelion, a church dedicated to Archangel Michael.[26]

Constantine felt that Licinius was an agent of Satan and associated him with the serpent described in the Book of Revelation (12:9).[164] After the victory, Constantine commissioned a depiction of himself and his sons slaying Licinius represented as a serpent a symbolism borrowed from the Christian teachings on the Archangel to whom he attributed the victory. A similar painting, this time with the Archangel Michael himself slaying a serpent, then became a major art piece at the Michaelion and eventually lead to the standard iconography of the Archangel Michael as a warrior saint.[26]

In less common depiction, Michael holds a pair of scales, weighs the souls of the departed and holds the book of life (as in the Book of Revelation) to show he partakes in the judgment.[162] Michelangelo depicted this scene on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel.[165]

In Byzantine art, Michael was often shown as a princely court dignitary rather than a warrior who battled Satan or with scales for weighing souls on the Day of Judgement.[166]

Churches dedicated to Saint Michael

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The Mount Saint-Michel in Normandy, France – a World Heritage Site
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Sanctuary of St. Michael the Archangel in Gargano, Italy – a World Heritage Site
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Saint Michael monastery of Panormitis in Symi, Greece – part of Saint Michael's line

See also

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Notes

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  2. ^ Panarion XXX. 16.2–4
  3. ^ At times (particularly in the Lutheran tradition) positing that both a created angel named "Michael" and "Michael" a title born by Christ coexist.

References

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