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Archangel Michael

Hierarchy: Multiple
Order/Choir: Multiple
Classified: Seraphim, Virtues, Principalities, Archangels
Origin of Name: Translated "Who is like God"
Alternate Name(s): (a.k.a. Angel of the Balances, Angel of the Burning Bush, Mihael, Miha'il, Mikael, Mika'il, Mikail, Mikhael, Mikha'il)

Chronicle

Physical Appearance:

Michael is often depicted as winged and with unsheathed sword.

In Renaissance period art, Michael is shown as young, strong, and handsome, and is most often depicted as an Angel in white or magnificent armor or a splendid coat of mail and equipped with sword, shield and spear.

In Religious art, St. Michael is represented as a handsome stern-faced youth with wings and armor. (Like St. George, he bears a "dragon-slaying" sword and shield).

Michael might be depicted as an angelic warrior, fully armed with helmet, sword, and shield standing over the dragon, whom he sometimes pierces with a lance. (Often the shield bears the Latin inscription: Quis ut Deus meaning "One like God").

St. Michael might carry a pair of scales in which he weighs the good and bad deeds of the dead.

Michael also holds the book of life, to show that he takes part in the judgment.

Symbolized By:

The dragon, the scales, and the sword.
His color energies are brown, crystal, gold, orange, violet, and white.
Michael's candle colors are gold, orange, and white.

Primary Role(s):

The Archangel Michael is one of the principal angelic warriors, seen as a protector against the dark of night, and the administrator of cosmic intelligence.

Michael is generally presented as the field commander of the Army of God.

The Biblical Book of Revelations says that Michael will lead God's troops against the dragon and his Angels at the final battle. Rev 12:7 "And there was war in heaven. Michael and his Angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back."

Jude 1:9 refers to Michael as "the archangel", a term meaning "chief Angel."

Michael is believed to be the Angel associated with the delivery of blessings of patience, careers, courage, achievements, ambitions, motivation, and life tasks.

Michael is the ruler over Sunday.

Michael carries the souls of all the deceased to heaven, where they are weighed in his perfectly balanced scales.

Michael is Patron Saint of: ambulance drivers, artists, bakers, battle, boatmen, Brussels Belgium, chivalry, coopers, Cornwall England, dying people, emergency medical technicians, EMT's, fencing, Germany, green-grocers, grocers, haberdashers, hat makers, hatters, holy-death, knights, mariners, milliners, Papua New Guinea, paramedics, paratroopers, police officers, radiologists, radio-therapists, sailors, security forces, security guards, sick people, soldiers, storms at sea, swordsmiths, warriors, watermen.

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-- John Milton

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