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The Scapular of St. Michael the Archangel is a Roman Catholic devotional scapular associated with Saint Michael. Pope Pius IX gave to this scapular his blessing, but it was first formally approved under Pope Leo XIII who sanctioned the Archconfraternity of the Scapular of Saint Michael. [36] St. Michael defeating Satan by Carlo Crivelli, 15th ...
Michael, [Notes 1] also called Saint Michael the Archangel, Archangel Michael and Saint Michael the Taxiarch [6] [dead link ] is an archangel in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and the Baháʼí Faith.
Born Michael Argemir, at Vic, Catalonia, his parents died while he was still young, and he was apprenticed to a merchant. [2] At the age of twelve, he came to Barcelona and asked to be received into the monastery of the Trinitarians there. After a three-year novitiate, he took his vows at that order's monastery of St. Lambert at Zaragoza in ...
In the Catholic Encyclopedia (1911) article "St. Michael the Archangel", Frederick Holweck wrote: "St. John speaks of the great conflict at the end of time, which reflects also the battle in heaven at the beginning of time." He added that Michael's name "was the war-cry of the good angels in the battle fought in heaven against the enemy and his ...
Michaelmas (/ ˈ m ɪ k əl m ə s / MIK-əl-məs; also known as the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, the Feast of the Archangels, or the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels) is a Christian festival observed in many Western Christian liturgical calendars on 29 September, and on 8 November in the Eastern Christian traditions.
From Country Living. Legendary actor Kirk Douglas died on Wednesday at the age of 103. Following his death, his son, actor Michael Douglas, released a statement detailing some of the things he ...
Joshua's Vision of St Michael or The Apparition of the Archangel Michael to Joshua is a 13th-century Russian icon. It is exhibited in Dormition Cathedral, Moscow . It shows an episode in Joshua 5.13-15 where "a man ... with a drawn sword in his hand" appeared to Joshua - that man was later interpreted as Michael the Archangel .
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