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📰 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Michael the Archangel

Author: Holweck

Full Title: CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Michael the Archangel

URL: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10275b.htm

Highlights from March 9th, 2021.

St. Michael is one of the principal angels; his name was the war-cry of the good angels in the battle fought in heaven against the enemy and his followers.
Apocalypse 12:7, "And there was a great battle in heaven, Michael and his angels fought with the dragon."
To fight against Satan.
To rescue the souls of the faithful from the power of the enemy, especially at the hour of death.
To be the champion of God's people, the Jews in the Old Law, the Christians in the New Testament; therefore he was the patron of the Church, and of the orders of knights during the Middle Ages.
To call away from earth and bring men's souls to judgment
In art St. Michael is represented as an angelic warrior, fully armed with helmet, sword, and shield (often the shield bears the Latin inscription: Quis ut Deus), standing over the dragon, whom he sometimes pierces with a lance. He also holds a pair of scales in which he weighs the souls of the departed (cf. Rock, "The Church of Our Fathers", III, 160), or the book of life, to show that he takes part in the judgment.