I am wrapped in the mantle of Our Lady; what can you do to me? I have St. Michael the Archangel on my side, try fighting with him. I have my guardian angel watching over me lest I be touched; you cannot do anything. – Fr. Gabriel Amorth, Richard Redding Antiques Ltd. “Sold Objects.” A Classical Statue of The Greek Slave or La schiava greca by Scipione Tadolini, Rome, dated 1860,” see https://www.richardreddingantiques.com/sold/9527/. Accessed 2/1/2022. Davioud was himself a trained neoclassical sculptor from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and the large scale (26 meters by 15 meters) and the elaborate iconography he created for the fountain required the work of nine different sculptors. It features:

Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, while the adversary stood at his right side to accuse him. And the angel of the LORD said to the adversary, “May the LORD rebuke you, O adversary; may the LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Zechariah 3:1-2a Until Pope John XXIII revised it in 1960, the General Roman Calendar had not one but two feasts of Saint Michael, one on 29 September, the other on 8 May. [26] Veneration [ edit ] Patronage [ edit ] Q. Mention some Archangels and tell what they did. A. The Archangel Michael drove Satan out of heaven; the Archangel Gabriel announced to the Blessed Virgin that she was to become the Mother of God. The Archangel Raphael guided and protected Tobias. Source: The Baltimore Catechism Seven Archangels of God The Golden Monastery of St. Michael the Archangel is a famous spot, standing majestically on the top of a hill to the right of the Dnieper River. Previously destroyed in the ’30s by the Soviet authorities, it was then rebuilt in 1991 on the occasion of Ukraine’s independence. St. Bernard of Clairvaux recommended the invocation of Saint Michael at times of temptation and sorrow: "Whenever any grievous temptation or vehement sorrow oppresses thee, invoke thy guardian, thy leader, cry out to him, and say, 'Lord, save us, lest we perish!'" [8]Daniel 12:1, "At that time there shall arise Michael, the great prince, guardian of your people; It shall be a time unsurpassed in distress since nations began until that time." Daniel 10:13, Gabriel says, "...but the prince of the kingdom of Persia stood in my way for twenty-one days, until finally Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me." N 2°20′37.32″E / 48.8531444°N 2.3437000°E / 48.8531444; 2.3437000 Fontaine Saint-Michel, Place Saint-Michel, Paris Archangel Michael and the devil, by Francisque-Joseph Duret, centerpiece of the Fontaine Saint-Michel Dragon by Henri Alfred Jacquemart in front of Fontaine Saint-Michel

In response to the rise of evil in the world, Pope Leo XIII prudently instructed the Church in 1886 to pray his Prayer to St. Michael at the end of every Mass. The fontaine Saint-Michel was part of the great project for the reconstruction of Paris overseen by Baron Haussmann during the French Second Empire. In 1855 Haussmann completed an enormous new boulevard, originally called boulevard de Sébastopol-rive-gauche, now called Boulevard Saint-Michel, which opened up the small place Pont-Saint-Michel into a much larger space. Haussmann asked the architect of the service of promenades and plantations of the prefecture, Gabriel Davioud, to design a fountain which would be appropriate in scale to the new square. As the architect of the prefecture, he was able to design not only the fountain but also the facades of the new buildings around it, giving coherence to the square, but he also had to deal with the demands of the prefet and city administration, which was paying for the project.Through the centuries, Catholic devotions to Saint Michael have resulted in a number of poems and hymns. [39] [40] [41] Christie’s. “The Opulent Eye – 19th Century Furniture, Sculpture, Works of Art, Ceramics & Carpets.” Live Auction 12029 [2016]. Scipione Tadolini (Italian 1822-1892/3) La schiava greca (The Greek Slave), see https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6001605. Accessed 2/1/2022. In the Book of Tobit, the archangel Raphael mentions that he is one of seven archangels who stand before the throne of God. Only three of the seven are named in the Bible: St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael. There are, however, a number of symbolic references to the seven archangels in the Bible. According to St. Lawrence of Brindisi, who is a Doctor of the Church, the seven archangels are symbolized by such things as the seven stars in the right hand of God and the seven torches in Revelation. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia stood in my way for twenty-one days, until finally Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me. I left him there with the prince of the kingdom of Persia. Daniel 10:13 Placed in 2002, the statue, constructed of bronze and gold, stands above the Lach Gates in Independence Square in Kyiv.

Christian art often portrays archangels together. Archangels Michael and Gabriel are jointly depicted on Our Lady of Perpetual Help, a Byzantine icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary that has been the subject of widespread Catholic devotions for centuries. Pope Leo XIII added a Prayer to Saint Michael to the Leonine Prayers in 1886. [31] Although these prayers are no longer recited after Mass, as they were until 1964, Pope John PaulII encouraged the Catholic faithful to continue to pray it, saying: "I ask everyone not to forget it and to recite it to obtain help in the battle against forces of darkness." [32] Like any other novena, the novenas to Saint Michael are prayed on nine consecutive days.

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Rabanus' hymn, Christ, the fair glory of the holy angels ( Christe, sanctorum decus Angelorum), sung for the commemoration of Saint Michael and All Angels, and to include the archangels Gabriel and Raphael, is found in English translation in The Hymnal 1982 (of the Episcopal Church), and was harmonized by Ralph Vaughan Williams. [42] In 1872, Davioud was authorized by the Prefecture to make urgent repairs to the fountain. [6] It was again repaired again in 1893. The imperial arms which originally decorated the fountain's pediment were replaced by those of the City of Paris on one of those occasions. [4] Gallery [ edit ] The critic Alfred Darcel in Gazette des Beaux-Arts was less enthusiastic: he condemned the fountain for its choice of colors, its composition, what he called its incoherent style and iconography, and because, in his view, the concentration of so many different statues by different artists nullified the individual talents of the artists. [9] Dominique Jarassé, La fontaine Saint-Michel, Le classicism controversé, Archives d'architecture moderne, 1982, number 22, pgs. 80-87.

Jude 1:9, "Yet the archangel Michael, when he argued with the devil in a dispute over the body of Moses, did not venture to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him but said, 'May the Lord rebuke you!'" Not only is St. Michael a great protector of the people of God, but he can also help us to better understand the events that surround us in our own spiritual warfare, and St. Michael is known to present our petitions before the throne of God in heaven. Since May of 2022, churches, convents, monasteries and houses of prayer throughout Scotland have opened their doors to welcome a visit of the Saint Michael Pilgrim Statue [replica of the statue at Mount Gargano, Italy] where thousands of Catholics, adults and children alike, have come to visit the statue to experience it’s beauty and to seek the intercessory help of Saint Michael the Archangel. Saint Michael the archangel is mentioned in the Book of Daniel as the protector of Israel, and so Christians honor him as the defender of the new Israel, the Church of Jesus Christ.One of the things we found effective in creating a good atmosphere in the home among the parents is if they get up and pray the Angelus every day at 6, noon, and 6. There is something about that prayer, it protects people in their spiritual warfare…we are trying to figure out what causes it. We think part of it is the discipline of praying it daily.” – Fr. Chad Ripperger, exorcist Patron of Soldiers in Battle Alfred Darcel and Charles Blanc, "La fontaine Saint-Michel" Gazette des Beaux-Arts, October 1860, volume VIII, pg. 44 and 45. Cited in Beatrice Lamoitier, "Le règne de Davioud", in Paris et ses fontaines, pg. 184. Michael and the Archangels [ edit ] Archangel Michael with archangels Raphael and Gabriel, as they accompany Tobias, by Francesco Botticini, 1470