Saint Michael

He is named four times in the Bible and has been painted more often than almost anyone in it. Michael arrives in the Book of Daniel as the prince who stands guard over Israel, turns up in Jude arguing with the devil over the body of Moses, and in Revelation leads the armies of heaven against the dragon, and from those few verses, and a much larger body of writing that never made it into the canon, grew a figure who ended up on mountaintops across Europe, on the coat of arms of Kyiv, on the patches of paratroopers and police, and in the monthly calendar of the Coptic Church. His name is a question rather than a statement: Mi-ka-el, who is like God. Around the year 490 a bull is said to have led a man to a cave on the Gargano, and around 708 a bishop of Avranches said the archangel appeared to him and pressed a finger into his skull; the shrines founded on those accounts are still standing and still receiving pilgrims. He is an angel of Islam, a guardian in Jewish tradition, and one of the most venerated figures in Ethiopian and Egyptian Christianity. This archive follows all of it: the texts, the images, the mountains, the reported visions, the feast days, the soldiers, the other faiths, and what the archangel has become since.

A chronological documentary of 660 moments spanning 200 BC–2026 on Loreline.

Curated by Olivier · last updated 2026-08-22

Eras

Scripture, Where he actually appears. Daniel's prince who stands guard, the dispute over the body of Moses in Jude, and the war in heaven in Revelation 12, four short passages that generated everything else. Plus the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Book of Enoch and the apocrypha that filled in the rest.
Angels, The wider order he belongs to. Angels in Judaism and the merkabah tradition, Mika'il in the Qur'an as the angel of provision and rain, the hierarchies of Pseudo-Dionysius, and the Persian, Ottoman and Iraqi miniatures that painted them.
Dragon & Devil, The fight. Michael spearing, trampling and expelling, Raphael's small panel, Guido Reni's Roman altarpiece that Satanists and popes have both used, Rubens and Bruegel's falls of the rebel angels, Bermejo's jewelled armour, and the moment repeated in ten thousand images.
Paintings, The single standing figure, in armour or a dalmatic, with sword and scales. Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque painting of the archangel across Europe, and the galleries and museums that now hold it.
Icons, The Eastern image. Painted panels and wall paintings from Byzantium, Greece, Russia, Serbia, Georgia and Bulgaria, Boyana, Lesnovo, Staro Nagoričane, plus the workshop practice, the egg tempera and gilding, and the icon painters still doing it.
Altarpieces, The multi-panel object above the altar. Polyptychs and retablos, Spanish and Italian trittici, the Madonna-and-saints groupings where Michael stands to one side, and the Wilton Diptych, pieces built to be seen by a congregation, not a curator.
Mosaics & Glass, The archangel in tesserae and lead. Ravenna and Sicily, Venetian and Byzantine mosaic, stained glass from the great cathedrals to Victorian parish windows, and the light-dependent images that only work in the building they were made for.
Sculpture, Michael in stone, wood and bronze. Church portals and tympana, the spire figure and the weathervane, Epstein's bronze at Coventry, processional statues, and the carved altarpiece figures of Germany and Spain.
Manuscripts, Michael on the page. Books of hours, psalters and apocalypse cycles, the Très Riches Heures and the Beatus manuscripts, plus the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Hunefer papyrus, where the weighing of souls was already being painted three thousand years earlier.
Mont-Saint-Michel, The abbey on the tidal rock in Normandy. Built and rebuilt from the eighth century, a fortress the English never took, a prison after the Revolution, and now one of the most visited places in France, plus the tides, the causeway and the restoration work.
Skellig Michael, A monastery on a pillar of rock eleven kilometres into the Atlantic. Beehive huts, six hundred steps, the monks who lived there from the sixth century, the puffins and the lighthouse keepers, and what filming Star Wars there did to it.
Sacra di San Michele, The abbey on Monte Pirchiriano above the Susa valley in Piedmont, on the line of Michael sites running from Ireland to Apulia. The Staircase of the Dead, the Zodiac Door, and the building that gave Eco the setting for The Name of the Rose.
Gargano, Monte Sant'Angelo in Apulia, the cave where the cult began around 490 and the oldest Michael shrine in western Europe. The Lombard patronage, the Via Sacra Langobardorum, the pilgrim graffiti cut into the walls, and the UNESCO listing.
Shrines, Everywhere else he is venerated. St Michael's Mount in Cornwall, Bamberg and Hildesheim, the Hamburg Michel, Brussels, Mantamados on Lesbos, and the Mexican and Filipino shrines where the feast still fills a town.
Apparitions, The visions that founded the sites. The Gargano bull and the sandal left behind, Aubert of Avranches and the hole burned in his skull in 708, the sheathed sword over Castel Sant'Angelo during the plague, and the later apparitions and their feasts.
Soldiers, Patron of soldiers, police and paratroopers. Michael on regimental badges and unit patches, the patron of Kyiv on the city's coat of arms and its golden-domed monastery, requiems for the fallen, and the wartime uses of an armed archangel.
Coptic Church, Egyptian Christianity, where Michael has twelve feast days a year. Coptic icons and their distinct faces, the monasteries of Wadi el-Natrun, the Nile-flood blessing on 12 Paoni, hymns and vespers, and a devotion older than most of the European material.
Ethiopian Church, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo practice, where Mikael is everywhere. The rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, painted church interiors, magic scrolls, the tabot and the processions, and the monthly commemoration on the twelfth of every month.
Orthodoxy, The Byzantine and Slavic churches. The Synaxis of the Archangels on 8 November, the taxiarch, monastery and cathedral dedications from Athos to Kyiv, liturgical chant, and the theology of the bodiless powers.
Devotion, How people actually pray to him. The Leonine prayer of 1886 and its removal in 1964, the chaplet, medals and holy cards, exorcism and the Church's actual position on it, novenas, and the parish groups keeping it going.
Michaelmas, 29 September and what grew around it. Quarter day, rents and hiring fairs, the Michaelmas goose and the blackberry folklore, the term that still bears the name at Oxford and Cambridge, and the modern afterlife, the tattoo, the surname, the station tile.

c. 200 BC - Isaiah Scroll 1. The Great Isaiah Scroll from Qumran Cave 1, c. 2nd century BC; the Dead Sea Scrolls corpus includes the War Scroll, which names Michael as the prince who leads the sons of light.
c. 150 BC - Temple Scroll. The Temple Scroll from Qumran, 2nd century BC; part of the sectarian library that gives Michael a leading role in the eschatological war.
0500 - Clevelandart 1967.144. Late-antique Egyptian (Coptic) textile fragment with an archangel figure, c. 5th-6th century; the earliest Egyptian angel imagery underlying later Coptic Michael icons.
0520 - Angels - Christ and angels mosaic - Sant'Apollinare Nuovo - Ravenna 2016. Sixth-century mosaic angels flanking Christ enthroned at Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna; the Ostrogothic-era imperial angel type that shaped later Michael iconography.
0520 - Christ and angels mosaic - Sant'Apollinare Nuovo - Ravenna 2016. Christ enthroned between four angels, mosaic of c. 520 at Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna.
0545 - Bode Museum Apse mosaic - Ravenna - 545 1316. Sixth-century apse mosaic from Ravenna, now in the Bode Museum, Berlin, showing an archangel in imperial court dress.
0550 - Archangel Michael at Sant'Apollinare in Classe, a detail. Detail of the sixth-century Michael mosaic at Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna, labelled in Latin SCS MICHAHEL.
0550 - Archangel Michael on the triumphal arch at Sant'Apollinare in Classe. Sixth-century mosaic of the Archangel Michael on the triumphal arch of Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna; modern photograph of a late-antique mosaic.
1010 - Affresco di Maestro Ottoniano, Crocefissione, inizio secolo xi. Early eleventh-century Ottonian fresco of the Crucifixion in the Sacra di San Michele; among the oldest paintings surviving at the abbey.
1050 - Byzantine - Archangel Michael with St Demetrius - Walters 426. Byzantine ivory or steatite panel of the Archangel Michael with Saint Demetrius, 11th century, Walters Art Museum.
1050 - Saint-Sever Beatus f. 159r - crop. Folio from the Saint-Sever Beatus, eleventh century, illustrating the Apocalypse in which Michael fights the dragon of Revelation 12.
1091 - Beatus de Silos BL Add11695 - f147v-148. Page from the Silos Beatus, c. 1091, a Spanish illuminated commentary on the Apocalypse; the Beatus manuscripts are the great medieval visual tradition of Revelation. Slightly under 1000px but a scarce primary manuscript.
1100 - St. George medalion from Michael archange icon. Medallion of Saint George from a Georgian repousse icon of the Archangel Michael, 12th century.
1150 - Michael Miracle Icon Sinai 12th century. Twelfth-century Byzantine icon from Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, showing the miracle of the Archangel Michael at Chonae. Reproduction of the icon itself.
1261 - Armenian icon 2. Armenian illuminated manuscript page of 1261 with an archangel; Armenian Apostolic tradition venerates Michael among the incorporeal powers.
1280 - Irakischer Maler um 1280 002. Illustration of an angel from an Iraqi manuscript of al-Qazwini's Aja'ib al-makhluqat (Wonders of Creation), c. 1280. Islamic cosmological manuscripts do depict angels including Mika'il, who is named in the Qur'an alongside Jibril.
1300 - Saint Michael, a 13th-century Yaroslavl icon. Russian icon of the Archangel Michael from Yaroslavl, c. 1300, Tretyakov Gallery; among the oldest surviving Russian Michael panels.
1317 - Frescos in St. George's Church (Staro Nagoricane) 015. Orthodox 'Synaxis of the Bodiless Powers', showing Michael among the archangels.
1320 - Simone Martini 004. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1320 - Simone Martini 005. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1336 - 1 Niccolo di Segna, San Benedetto e Michele arcangelo, ca. 1336, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1346 - FerrerBassa-StMiquelStJoanB-6448. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1350 - Frescos from the Michael the Archangel Church of Lesnovo 019. Fourteenth-century Serbian Orthodox fresco from the Church of the Archangel Michael at Lesnovo, North Macedonia.
1350 - Angelo di guariento 4, 1357, museo civico di padova. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1350 - Bartolomeo bulgarini, trittichetto con maestà e altre storie, 1350-60 ca. 01. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1350 - Buffalmacco, giudizio universale 02. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1350 - Buffalmacco, giudizio universale 03. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1350 - Església de Sot de Ferrer, retaule de sant Miquel Arcàngel. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1350 - Guariento 002. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1350 - Icon of Saint Michael (14th c., Byzantine museum). Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1350 - Michael icon Athens. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1350 - Paolo Veneziano 004. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1350 - Retaule de sant Miquel Arcàngel, església de la Concepció de Sot de Ferrer. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1350 - Ugolino di nerio, san michele arcangelo, xiv sec. 01. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1353 - Icon with the Archangel Michael (14th cent.) at the Byzantine and Christian Museum on 12 April 2019. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1354 - 8 Andrea di Cione Orcagna, Strozzi Altarpiece. 1354-57, Santa Maria Novella, Florence.. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1354 - 8a Andrea di Cione Orcagna, Strozzi Altarpiece. Detail. 1354-57, Santa Maria Novella, Florence.. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1380 - Master of Saint Verdiana - Archangel Michael Slaying the Dragon - Walters 37705. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1394 - Siegel st michael a d etsch 1394. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1395 - Wilton diptych. The Wilton Diptych, c. 1395-99, in which Richard II is presented to the Virgin by saints; angels wear his white hart badge. English or French court painting.
1395 - Wilton diptych; left-hand panel. Left panel of the Wilton Diptych, c. 1395, showing Richard II with his patron saints.
1400 - Dragon battles woman's offspring - St John sees the beast Wellcome L0029264 crop. Apocalypse manuscript illumination continuing the Revelation 12 sequence after Michael casts down the dragon.
1400 - Woman tries to save son, Michael battles a dragon Wellcome L0029262. Manuscript illumination of Revelation 12: the woman clothed with the sun and Michael's battle with the dragon.
1400 - Arabic-manuscript. 1375-1425; part of the Islamic cosmological illustration tradition.
1400 - Jacobello da fiore, trittico, 1400-30 ca. 02. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1405 - Pere vall, santi michele e amador, 1405 ca. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1405 - Saint Michael and the Dragon MET DT200571. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1420 - Workshop of Lorenzo Monaco - Saint Michael; Above, Angel Gabriel - Google Art Project. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1421 - Jacobello Del Fiore - Justice between the Archangels Michael and Gabriel - WGA11888. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1443 - Rogier van der Weyden - Beaune Altarpiece. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1448 - Domenico Ghirlandaio - Saint Michael and the Angels at War with the Devil - 25.205 - Detroit Institute of Arts. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1450 - Altarpiece from Escalarre 3 DMA. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1450 - Bartolomeo vivarini, aracngelo michele che pesa le anime, 01. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1450 - Bottega degli zavattari, ss. michele arcangelo e g. battista, dalla coll. pompei, vr 03. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1450 - Francesco Botticini Erzengel Michael mit der Seelenwaage. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1450 - Giovanni dal Ponte (1385-c.1437) - Saint Michael, Roundel above Left Panel - NG580.6 - National Gallery. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1450 - Maestro di Pratovecchio, trittico con Maestà, Santa Brigida e san Michele. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1450 - Master Of Pratovecchio - The Three Archangels - WGA14476. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1450 - Michaelskapelle 02, Piesendorf. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1450 - Michele Giambono - Polyptych of St James - WGA8948. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1450 - Politttico San Giacomo Giambono. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1450 - Predela con la Resurrección de Cristo, de Miguel Ximénez (Museo del Prado). European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1450 - San Michele arcangelo San Giovanni Battista. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1450 - San Miguel Arcángel, de Miguel Ximénez (Museo del Prado). European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1450 - Triunfo de San Miguel (Palacio de Viana de Córdoba). European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1450 - Zaragoza - Museo - San Miguel arcángel. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1455 - Saint Michael from the Brussels town hall tower in the Brussels City Museum. The 1455 gilded weathervane figure of Saint Michael from the Brussels town hall tower, now in the Brussels City Museum; Michael is the patron of Brussels.
1466 - Hans Memling 019. Hans Memling, The Last Judgement, 1466-73; the Archangel Michael in armour weighs souls at the centre of the triptych.
1468 - Bartolomé bermejo, san michele trionfa sul demonio, 1468, 01. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1468 - Bermejo-Miquel. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1469 - Piero della francesca, san michele, 1469, 01. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1470 - Heiliger Sebastian und Erzengel Michael (Meister der Lichtensteiner Geburt)-WUS07627. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1471 - Baldassarre di biagio, sant'anna metterza e altri santi, 1471, 02 michele e caterina d'alessandria. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1473 - Ercole de' roberti, san michele, 1473 ca. da polittico griffoni. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1476 - Carlo crivelli, s. michele, 1476 ca. 01. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1476 - Carlo crivelli, s. michele, 1476 ca. 02. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1476 - Master of the (Bruges) legend of St. Ursula (Pieter Casenbroot) - St Michael Fighting Demons in the presence o. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1477 - Carlo Crivelli 009. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1479 - Domenico ghirlandaio, san michele arcangelo e gli angeli in battaglia contro il demonio, 1479 ca. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1480 - Ethiopian - Folding Processional Icon in the Shape of a Fan - Walters 369 - Open. Ethiopian folding processional fan icon, late 15th century, painted with ranks of angels; carried in Orthodox processions.
1480 - Bartolomeo della gatta, san michele arcangelo e teodora visconti col figlio, 1480 ca. 04. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1480 - Juan de la Abadía, 'The Elder' - Saint Michael Weighing Souls - Google Art Project. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1480 - Saint Michael, attributed to Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1480-1485, tempera on wood - Portland Art Museum - Portland. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1480 - Saint Michael attributed to Paolo de San Leocadio. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1480 - Saint Michael by Paolo de San Leocadio, a detail. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1483 - Master of the Legend of Saint Ursula - Saint Michael and Saint Christopher (panel of the Triptych of the Annun. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1483 - Master of the Legend of Saint Ursula - The Triptych of the Annunciation. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1486 - 1486 Vivarini Archangel Michael with soul balance anagoria. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1490 - Osmanischer Meister 001. Ottoman miniature with an angel figure, c. 1480-1510; an example of figural angel imagery in Ottoman court painting.
1490 - Bernardino zenale, san michele arcangelo, san guglielmo da vercelli e un monaco cistercense. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1495 - 1495 Granacci Maria mit segnendem Kind anagoria. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1498 - Albrecht Dürer, Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon, 1498, NGA 142359. Dürer's Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon, 1498, from the Apocalypse woodcut cycle, National Gallery of Art impression.
1498 - Houghton Typ Inc 2121A - Dürer, Apocalypse, 37. Page from a 1498 edition of Dürer's Apocalypse showing the Michael woodcut as printed in the book.
1498 - Saint Michael and the Dragon, from The Apocalypse MET DP816130. Albrecht Dürer, Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon, woodcut from the Apocalypse series, c. 1498; the most influential printed image of Revelation 12.
1498 - The Apocalypse 12 Saint Michael fighting the dragon PK-P-127.238. Impression of Dürer's Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon from the Apocalypse series, Rijksmuseum.
1499 - Pietro Perugino 007. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1500 - Francisco de Zurbarán and Studio - The Archangel Michael - Google Art Project. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1500 - Georg und Erzengel Michael (Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg)-WUS07648. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1500 - Josse Lieferinxe - St. Michael Killing the Dragon - 1493-1505. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1500 - Maestro de zafra-san miguel. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1500 - Master Of The Legend Of St. Ursula - St Michael Fighting Demons - WGA14582. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1500 - Perugino, pala di vallombrosa. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1500 - Pietro Perugino 060. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1502 - Apocalypse (BM 1902,0617.20). Sixteenth-century printed Apocalypse illustration of Michael and the dragon, British Museum, 1502.
1503 - Raffaello, san michele (piccolo), 1503-1505, 01. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1503 - Raffaello Sanzio - St Michael and the Dragon - WGA18633. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1503 - Saint Michel et le Dragon - Raphaël - Musée du Louvre Peintures INV 608; MR 439. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1504 - St Michael Raphael. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1505 - Cima da Conegliano, Madonna col Bambino tra i santi Michele Arcangelo e Andrea. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1505 - Die Heiligen Michael und Stephanus-Inzigkofener Altar-WUS04432. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1505 - Salamanca - CV Retablo San Miguel. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1507 - Girolamo Marchesi - The Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Michael, Catherine of Alexandria, Cecilia, and. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1510 - Guillaume Le Rouge - Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome)- fol. 97v, St. Michael the Archangel - 2009.276.97.b. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1513 - Pedro Fernández - Vision of the Blessed Amedeo Menez de Sylva - WGA07809. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1517 - Innocenzo da imola, madonna in gloria e santi, 1517-22. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1518 - Le Grand Saint Michel, by Raffaello Sanzio, from C2RMF retouched. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1518 - Raffaello e Giulio Romano San Michele sconfigge Satana. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1518 - Raffaello, san michele (grande), 1518, 01. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1525 - Triptych of the Master of Mendicity, town-hall panel. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1525 - Tríptico del Maestro de la Mendicidad. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1530 - Ottheinrich Folio295r Rev12. Folio 295r of the Ottheinrich Bible, c. 1530, illustrating Revelation 12 with the archangel and the dragon.
1530 - Joos van Cleve, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie - Flügelaltar - GG 938 - Kunsthistorisches Museu. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1540 - Angelo Bronzino 010. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1542 - Madonna col Bambino in gloria con san Francesco e san Michele Arcangelo che presenta un donatore. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1545 - Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta - Madonna col Bambino e i santi Michele Arcangelo, Giuseppe e Giovannino, 154. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1550 - Archangel Michael, a 16th-century Aleppo icon. Melkite/Syrian icon of the Archangel Michael associated with Aleppo, 16th century; the Arabic-speaking Christian tradition of Michael imagery.
1550 - The archangle Michael icon (Uglich). Russian icon of the Archangel Michael from Uglich, 16th century.
1550 - Apostle Andrew and Archangel Michael. Orthodox panel icon of the Archangel Michael; the digitised icon itself, dated to the artwork.
1550 - Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Jacopo Tintoretto, Kampf Michaels gegen Satan. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1550 - Ignoto XVIsec Pala San Michele Riva Valdobbia. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1550 - Jacopo Tintoretto 019. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1550 - Madonna col bambino e santi (Moretto). European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1550 - Saint Michael, a 16th-century Tuscan panel. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1550 - San Michele arcangelo del maestro di Castelsardo. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1550 - Sant Miquel, mestre d'Alzira, museu de Belles Arts de València. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1550 - 'St. Michael' unknown Catalan painter, 16th century, Pushkin Museum. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1578 - Герб Києва 1578. Early depiction of the Kyiv civic arms with the Archangel Michael, before 1578.
1588 - Ercole Ramazzani, Madonna col Bambino e i santi Michele Arcangelo e Antonio Abate, 1588, Cerreto d'Esi, chiesa. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1600 - Hymnal, Archangel, Walters Manuscript W.547, fol. 218r. Armenian hymnal manuscript, Walters W.547, with an archangel illumination.
1600 - Mchadijvari icon of Archangel Michael. Georgian Orthodox icon of the Archangel Michael from Mchadijvari, 16th-17th century; Georgia has one of the oldest continuous Michael cults in the Caucasus.
1610 - Das jüngste Gericht mit dem hl Michael im Kampf mit dem Satan um1610. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1620 - Devil - 'Saint Michael Archangel' (ca. 1620) by Luís Juárez - Museo Nacional de Artes - Mexico 2024. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1620 - 'Saint Michael Archangel' (ca. 1620) by Luís Juárez - Museo Nacional de Artes - Mexico 2024. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1620 - The archangel Michael by Theodoros Poulakis (1620-1692) at the Benaki Museum, Athens. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1622 - Peter paul rubens (bottega), san michele espelle lucifero e gli angeli ribelli, 1622 ca. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1622 - Peter Paul Rubens - Saint Michael expelling Lucifer and the Rebellious Angels, 1622. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1622 - Rubens, St. Michael Expelling Lucifer and the Rebellious Angels from Heaven, ca. 1622 (4). Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1630 - Cristobal vela. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1630 - GuidoReni MichaelDefeatsSatan. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1636 - Cappouccini, guido reni, san michele arcangelo 02. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1636 - Guido Reni 031. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1640 - Saint Michel terrassant le dragon - Jean Tassel - MAHL 843-5. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1645 - La Hyre Saint Michel terrassant le dragon. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1650 - Portrait of a knight of Saint Michael-Le Nain-MBA Lyon H678-IMG 0381. Le Nain, portrait of a knight of the French Order of Saint Michael, 17th century, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
1650 - Archangel Michael, a 17th-century Coptic icon. Coptic icon of the Archangel Michael, 17th century, held in the Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens.
1650 - Arcanjos Miguel, Rafael e Anjo da Guarda, Miguel de Paiva, Centro Interpretativo do Mosteiro de Lorvão 02. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1650 - Elias Moskos Archangel Michael. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1650 - Ercole Procaccini - San Michele Arcangelo. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1650 - Fall of the rebel angels - Peter Paul Rubens (Unframed). European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1650 - Giovan Francesco Guerrieri, San Michele Arcangelo e la Trinità 02. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1650 - Giuseppe Marullo - Saint Michael defeating Lucifer. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1650 - Jacopo vignali, san michele arcangelo libera le anime del purgatorio. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1650 - San Michele Arcangelo - Paladini. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1650 - Kloster Wald Stiftungstafel 17Jh. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1650 - Poulakis Theodoros - The archangel Michael - Google Art Project. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1650 - Saint Michael the Archangel by Cesare Dandini. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1650 - Zurbarán and Studio - The Archangel Michael vanquishing the Devil, Delenda II-15. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1650 - Seguace di Francesco Curradi, Madonna in gloria coi santi Michele, Paolo e la decollazione del Battista 04. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1650 - 'Saint Michael Archangel and the Devil' (17th-cent) by unidentified Hispano-Phillipine artist - Museo Nacional. Seventeenth-century Hispano-Philippine ivory or painting of Saint Michael and the devil, Museo Nacional de Artes, Mexico City; evidence of the Manila galleon trade in devotional art.
1650 - San Miguel Arcángel, de Ignacio de Ries (Ayuntamiento de Sevilla). European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1654 - El arcángel San Miguel, de Juan de Valdés Leal (Palacio de Viana de Córdoba). European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1656 - Valdes leal-san miguel-prado. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1656 - San Miguel Arcángel, de Juan de Valdés Leal (Iglesia de Ntra. Sra. del Carmen de Córdoba). European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1660 - Claudio Coello - Saint Michael the Archangel - Google Art Project. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1663 - Fa Presto - St. Michael - Google Art Project. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1663 - Luca giordano, san michele arcangelo, 1663 ca. 01. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1663 - Luca Giordano - St Michael - WGA9023. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1663 - 1663 Giordano Der Heilige Michael anagoria. Depiction of the Archangel Michael in European art; digitised artwork.
1665 - Bartolomé Estéban Murillo - Der Erzengel Michael stürzt den Teufel in den Abgrund - GG 9821 - Kunsthistorische. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
1669 - Pieter van Lint - Saint Michael the Archangel. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.

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2024-05-30 - Decoding the Wilton Diptych. National Gallery curator Emma Capron and conservator Britta New examine Richard II's private devotional diptych, its gold ground and its eleven angels.
2024-06-14 - The Ascension of Isaiah and the Assumption of Moses. Long-form Orthodox reading of two Second Temple apocrypha, including the Assumption of Moses, the lost text ancient writers connected to the dispute over Moses's body in Jude 9.
2024-07-12 - Jibril, Mika'il and Israfil: Islamic Angelology Explained. A long Arabic lecture by Sheikh Muhammad al-Arifi setting Mika'il alongside Gabriel and Israfil within the Islamic doctrine of the angels.
2024-07-26 - The Ancient Churches of Coptic Cairo. Tour of the oldest churches of Coptic Cairo and the Coptic Museum, the setting for Egypt's long tradition of Michael dedications.
2024-08-01 - Russian Icon Painting in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. A course lecture on hesychasm and the flowering of Russian painting under Theophanes the Greek and Rublev, including the Novgorod frescoes. In Russian.
2024-08-08 - The Wilton Diptych in Medieval Context. A National Gallery curatorial fellow places the Wilton Diptych in the visual culture of late fourteenth-century England, with close-up detail.
2024-08-13 - An Introduction to Georgian Art. An overview of the Georgian artistic tradition from late antiquity through the medieval kingdom.
2024-08-15 - Bulgaria's Boyana Church Frescoes. Associated Press footage of the thirteenth-century UNESCO-listed frescoes at Boyana church near Sofia, a landmark of medieval Bulgarian painting.
2024-09-03 - Medieval Georgian Wall Painting. A survey of Georgia's medieval church frescoes, a distinct Caucasian branch of the Eastern Christian painting tradition.
2024-09-14 - San Miguel Arcangel Grand Procession, 2024. A full Filipino patronal procession for St Michael, one of the largest annual Michael observances in Asia.
2024-09-17 - Medieval Georgian Relief Sculpture. Georgian stone relief carving of the medieval period, including the archangels that flank church facades and altar screens.
2024-09-24 - A Thirteenth-Century Mosaic Icon from Sinai. Smarthistory examines a miniature mosaic icon of the Virgin Hodegetria at Saint Catherine's Monastery, built from gold tesserae set in wax.
2024-09-29 - Fiesta del San Miguel at the Iglesia Filipina Independiente Cathedral. The grand procession for the patronal feast at the Philippine Independent Church cathedral of St Michael the Archangel.
2024-10-07 - Guido Reni's Archangel Michael Defeating Satan. An analysis of the early seventeenth-century Baroque altarpiece in Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome, probably the single most reproduced image of Michael.
2024-10-14 - The Timeless Beauty of Mont-Saint-Michel. Documentary on the Romanesque Benedictine abbey with its Gothic monastery and neo-Gothic spire, perched on a rocky islet off Normandy.
2024-10-31 - The 'Sword of Saint Michael' as a Devotional Route. Catholic news segment presenting the line of Michael sanctuaries from Ireland to Israel; this alignment is a modern devotional claim popularised in recent decades, not a documented medieval pilgrimage route.
2024-11-04 - John J. Collins on Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Yale emeritus professor of Old Testament criticism lectures on apocalyptic thought in the Qumran texts, delivered at the 2023 Archaeology Discovery Weekend.
2024-11-08 - The Hamburg Michel and Its Secrets. NDR documentary going behind the scenes at St Michaelis, Hamburg's landmark baroque church, which receives about 1.5 million visitors a year.
2024-11-08 - An Orthodox Prayer to Michael, Prince of the Heavenly Host. An Eastern Orthodox prayer with commentary on the meaning of the name Michael, 'Who is like unto God', and his role as Defender of the Faith.
2024-11-09 - Romanian State Television on the Origin of the Archangels' Feast. TVR 1's religious programme Universul Credintei explains the origins of the Romanian Orthodox feast of Saints Michael and Gabriel on 8 November.
2024-11-12 - Castel Sant'Angelo and the Plague of Rome. Short account of the tradition that Michael appeared sheathing his sword atop Hadrian's mausoleum, signalling the end of the plague; the building has borne his name since.
2024-11-15 - Hymns for the Ethiopian Feast of Saint Michael, Hidar 12. Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo feast-day hymns for Hidar 12 and Sene 12, the two great annual Michael feasts of the Ethiopian calendar.
2024-11-21 - Rublev's Archangel Michael from the Zvenigorod Tier. The Andrei Rublev Museum presents Rublev's early fifteenth-century Archangel Michael, one of the supreme works of Russian icon painting. In Russian.
2024-11-23 - Roberto Giacobbo Inside the Abbey of the Archangel Michael. An Italian television presenter tours the Val di Susa abbey that stood for centuries on the route between northern and southern Europe.
2024-12-28 - Restoring Painted Angels in a Boston Church. Associated Press footage of conservator Gianfranco Pocobene restoring painted angel murals in a historic Boston church.
2025-01-01 - Kempe Stained-Glass Window, St. Michael, Emmanuel Episcopal Church Boston. Charles Eamer Kempe stained-glass window of Saint Michael, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Boston; photographed 2025.
2025-02-04 - Why Is the Archangel Michael So Feared?. A mythology channel surveys how Michael is portrayed in popular culture as warrior, judge and adversary of Lucifer.
2025-02-09 - Miryam Brand on 1 Enoch and the Pseudepigrapha. Nehemia Gordon interviews scholar Miryam Brand on 1 Enoch, how a marginal Tanakh figure generated a large Second Temple literature, and its angelology.
2025-02-14 - The Sacra di San Michele: A Thousand-Year Sanctuary. An Italian documentary on the abbey founded more than a thousand years ago above the Val di Susa, an emblem of Piedmont.
2025-03-03 - The 'Sacred Line' of Saint Michael: Seven Sanctuaries Across Europe. An Italian account of the popular claim that seven Michael sanctuaries from Ireland to the Middle East fall on a straight line of more than 4,000 kilometres, presented as a modern legend around the medieval cult.
2025-03-06 - Daniel 12: Resurrection and the Afterlife in the Old Testament. Ed Gallagher on Daniel 12, the chapter opening with Michael standing up as the great prince, and the first clear Hebrew Bible statement of resurrection.
2025-03-08 - The Holy Door and Inscriptions of the Gargano Grotto. Italian tour of the Gargano sanctuary, which tradition holds was consecrated by the Archangel rather than by human hands, and its Holy Door inscriptions.
2025-03-09 - How Ethiopian Sacred Manuscripts Are Made. An account of Ethiopian manuscript production - goatskin parchment, hand-ground natural inks, and years of monastic labour per book.
2025-03-14 - Second Temple Judaism, 500 BCE to 100 CE. Historical survey of the Second Temple period, the era in which Jewish angelology developed and the archangel Michael was first named.
2025-03-20 - Persian Imperial Mythology and the Origins of Jewish Demonology. UCLA Jewish Studies lecture by Mark Leuchter arguing against the standard account that Hellenistic-era Jewish lore about demons and angels derives from Persian encounter.
2025-04-15 - The Thirty Residents of Mont-Saint-Michel. France 24 report on daily life for the roughly thirty people who live on the tidal island that receives about three million visitors a year.
2025-05-02 - A Guided Tour of the Abbey and Museums of Mont-Saint-Michel. Museum guide Jessica walks through the island's abbey church, village and museum collections, explaining the layered building history.
2025-05-07 - 8 May: The Apparition of Saint Michael in Butler's Lives of the Saints. Reading of the entry for the 8 May feast from Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints (1756-1759), the traditional hagiographic account of the Gargano apparition.
2025-05-31 - The Met on the Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela. Metropolitan Museum film on Ethiopia's eleven monolithic churches carved downward from volcanic rock, the heartland of a Christianity with strong Michael devotion.
2025-06-18 - The Coptic Hymn 'Fai Etaf-Enf' for the Archangel Michael. A Coptic-language hymn chanted after the Synaxarion on Michael's feasts, 12 Paoni and 12 Hathor, and on his monthly commemoration on the 12th of every Coptic month.
2025-06-18 - Coptic Vespers for the Feast of the Archangel Michael. The eve service (ashiya) of Michael's Coptic feast, sung by Fr Rewis Farid, documenting the liturgical shape of Coptic devotion to the archangel.
2025-06-24 - Coptic Christianity Explained. Religious studies survey of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt, the tradition in which churches dedicated to the Archangel Michael are among the most numerous.
2025-07-02 - What a Book of Hours Is. The Barber Institute explains the Book of Hours, the illuminated format in which most laypeople encountered images of angels and the Last Judgement.
2025-07-02 - The 82nd Airborne's St Michael's Jump, Fort Bragg 2025. Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division load a Chinook for the annual jump honouring Michael, patron saint of the airborne, on Sicily Drop Zone.
2025-07-29 - Loren Stuckenbruck on the Book of the Watchers and Jude. Enoch specialist Loren Stuckenbruck discusses the Book of the Watchers, the Parables of Enoch and how New Testament writers such as Jude drew on Enochic material.
2025-08-08 - Ephraim Isaac on the Ethiopic Book of Enoch. Library of Congress lecture by the Ethiopic scholar who translated 1 Enoch, on the text preserved entire only in Ge'ez within the Ethiopian Orthodox canon.
2025-08-26 - The Iconostasis Explained. An introduction to the icon screen and its standard arrangement, on which Michael and Gabriel occupy the north and south deacon doors.
2025-09-02 - St Michael's Mount: History, Legend and Pilgrimage. A tour of the Cornish tidal island, its castle, causeway and pilgrimage history under the archangel's name.
2025-09-04 - Mika'il in Islam: The Angel of Rain and Provision. An Arabic account of Mika'il as Islam holds him, the angel charged with rain and sustenance (rizq), and his standing among the archangels of Islamic angelology.
2025-09-06 - The Miracle at Colossae Preached by the Bulgarian Patriarch. Patriarch Daniil of Bulgaria preaches on the tradition of Michael's miracle at Colossae and Chonai, at a liturgy also marking the 140th anniversary of Bulgarian unification.
2025-09-18 - Visiting Skellig Michael: The Official Safety Guide. Ireland's Office of Public Works sets out the conditions and hazards of landing on and climbing the monastic island, which limits visitor numbers.
2025-09-21 - Ethiopian Orthodox Mezmur Hymns to the Archangel Michael. A set of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo mezmur hymns to Qeddus Mikael, including one on the meaning of his name, 'Who is like God'.
2025-09-22 - Painting Saint Michael: Technique, History and Costume. A Spanish-language painting tutorial that also explains the historical meaning of each element of Michael's armour and dress.
2025-09-25 - Ukraine Honours Fallen Soldiers at St Michael's Cathedral, Kyiv. News footage of a farewell ceremony for Ukrainian service members at the Golden-Domed cathedral, which has become the country's chief site for military funerals.
2025-09-28 - The Real Story of Michaelmas. How liturgy, legend and folk custom converge on the 29 September feast of St Michael and All Angels.
2025-09-28 - How the Tudors Marked Michaelmas. Historian Claire Ridgway on Michaelmas in Tudor England, including its role as one of the four English quarter days when rents and accounts fell due.
2025-09-28 - The Miracle Spring of San Miguel, 400 Years On. Mexican reporting on the spring at Nativitas, Tlaxcala, said to have appeared in 1631 after the vision of the archangel, still drawing thousands of pilgrims each September.
2025-09-29 - Italy's State Police Mark Their Patron Saint at Santa Maria Maggiore. The Polizia di Stato's own footage of the 2025 feast-day Mass for St Michael, patron of the Italian state police, in the Roman basilica.
2025-09-29 - EWTN at Castel Sant'Elia: Fifteen Centuries of Devotion. A report from the Italian sanctuary north of Rome where the novena before the 29 September feast has been kept for more than 1,500 years.
2025-09-29 - Italian Police Celebrate St Michael the Archangel, 2025. Italian regional news covers the annual celebrations for the patron saint of the Polizia di Stato on 29 September.
2025-09-29 - Saint Michael, Archangel of the Lord. French Catholic broadcaster KTO on Michael's cult in France, ahead of the second national pilgrimage on foot from Saint-Malo to Mont-Saint-Michel.
2025-09-30 - Ragusa Marks St Michael, Patron of the Police. Sicilian television coverage of the 2025 police feast day for the archangel.
2025-10-01 - The Celestial Basilica: The Cave of Saint Michael at Monte Sant'Angelo. Account of the Apulian sanctuary built around the cave where tradition holds the Archangel appeared several times between the fifth and eighth centuries.
2025-10-01 - The Police of Bari Honour Their Protector, St Michael. Coverage of the state police celebration in Bari, in the Apulian region that also holds the Gargano sanctuary of the archangel.
2025-10-11 - Egg Tempera Brushwork on an Archangel. An icon academy demonstrates the layered egg-tempera strokes used to build an archangel's face in the Byzantine canon.
2025-10-16 - The Skellig Michael Visitor Experience Film. Footage of the orientation film shown at the Skellig Michael Visitor Experience in September 2025, covering the monastery's history and access.
2025-10-22 - Brussels' Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudula Turns 800. Brussels city television on the 800th anniversary of the cathedral named for Michael, patron saint of the city.
2025-10-30 - Ian Paul on Why Revelation 12 Is the Book's Centre. New Testament scholar Ian Paul argues that the woman, dragon and male child of Revelation 12, the chapter containing the war in heaven, form the structural and theological centre of the Apocalypse.
2025-10-31 - Monte Sant'Angelo: The Sanctuary Where Heaven Touches Earth. Italian documentary inside the Gargano cave basilica, which the tradition holds was consecrated by the Archangel himself rather than by any bishop.
2025-11-05 - Contemporary Coptic Iconography with Stephane Rene. Dr Stephane Rene, a leading practitioner of the neo-Coptic school founded by Isaac Fanous, lectures on modern Coptic icon painting.
2025-11-07 - The Bulgarian Orthodox Feast of the Archangel Michael, 8 November. The Sofia Metropolitanate's television explains Arhangelovden, the Bulgarian Orthodox observance of the Synaxis of Michael.
2025-11-10 - A Byzantine Choral Prayer to the Archangel Michael. An Orthodox choir sings a traditional Byzantine-style prayer to Michael as leader of the heavenly hosts.
2025-11-11 - Mont-Saint-Michel: How Medieval Builders Conquered the Impossible. Documentary on the engineering of Mont-Saint-Michel, built on a rock under a kilometre wide in a bay with Europe's greatest tidal range.
2025-11-20 - Russian Orthodox Readings for the Feast of the Archangels. The scripture readings appointed in the Russian Orthodox calendar for the 8/21 November Synaxis of Michael, with commentary.
2025-11-21 - Coptic Madeeh Praise Hymn to the Archangel Michael. A madeeh, the Coptic Orthodox devotional praise genre, addressed to Michael as commander of the Lord's hosts and intercessor for protection.
2025-11-27 - Jimmy Akin Examines the 'Sword of Saint Michael' Claim. Catholic apologist takes listener questions including the alleged straight-line alignment of Michael shrines from Ireland to Israel, treating it critically as a modern devotional claim rather than a documented medieval tradition.
2025-12-02 - The Apparition Site at Monte Sant'Angelo. Guide to the Gargano cave, telling the traditional legend of the herdsman whose bull knelt at the cave mouth and the arrow that turned back on the archer.
2025-12-05 - Drawing Archangel Michael in the Ethiopian Style. A gouache demonstration of the Ethiopian Orthodox manner of drawing Michael, with its flat planes and large eyes.
2025-12-12 - Al Jazeera Inside the World of Catholic Exorcisms in the Philippines. An Al Jazeera 101 East documentary on the growth of exorcism ministry in the Philippines, the practice in which the St Michael prayer is most commonly invoked.
2025-12-18 - The Monastery of the Taxiarchs at Mantamados, Lesvos. A Greek documentary on the Lesvos monastery of the Archangels, home to a relief icon of Michael that is among the most venerated in Greek Orthodoxy.
2025-12-31 - The Tabot Procession on Ethiopia's Saint Michael's Day. Ethiopian Orthodox clergy carry the tabot, a consecrated replica of the Ark of the Covenant, in procession for the feast of Michael, a rite found only in Ethiopia.
2026-01-01 - Capital from the Zodiac Portal Sacra di San Michele n02. Carved capital of the twelfth-century Zodiac Portal at the Sacra di San Michele, modern photograph of Romanesque sculpture by the master Nicholaus.
2026-01-06 - Gold Gilding for Icon Painting. A step-by-step demonstration of bole preparation and gold-leaf application, the gilded ground behind almost every Byzantine archangel.
2026-01-20 - CMC Saint Michael Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Addis Ababa. A portrait of one of Addis Ababa's principal Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo churches dedicated to Qeddus Mikael.
2026-01-20 - Timket at St Michael CMC Church, Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian Orthodox Epiphany procession of the tabot at the CMC St Michael church, with traditional chant and dress.
2026-01-27 - Restoring Mont Saint-Michel: A Monument in Need of Repair. France 24 report on the current restoration campaign at the Normandy abbey, whose walls have been eroded by storms, fires and centuries of weather.
2026-02-01 - From Proplasmos to Psimithies: Byzantine Icon Technique. Greek iconographer Taxiarchis Giannikos works through the full egg-tempera sequence from dark underpaint to final highlights.
2026-02-10 - An Archaeologist on Visiting Skellig Michael. Archaeologist Neil Jackman on the site's condition, landing conditions and what recent survey work has shown about the monastic settlement.
2026-02-23 - Chronica: Stories from the Sacra di San Michele. The abbey's own podcast series on the origins, myths and legends of the Piedmontese sanctuary of the archangel.
2026-02-28 - The Revival of Coptic Iconography. Iconographer George Makary on Coptic icon painting, its ancient Egyptian inheritance and the twentieth-century neo-Coptic revival.
2026-03-22 - Requiem Liturgy at St Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral, Kyiv. Ukrinform's recording of a funeral Divine Liturgy at the Kyiv cathedral, broadcast by the Orthodox Church of Ukraine during the war.
2026-03-28 - Byzantine Icons Across Time. Stanford art historian Bissera Pentcheva on the origins, form and liturgical function of the Byzantine icon from late antiquity to the present.
2026-04-06 - Angels, Giants and the Folklore of St Michael's Mount. A British folklore channel on the legends attached to Cornwall's tidal island, from angelic apparition traditions to the so-called Michael ley line.
2026-04-28 - Mont-Saint-Michel and the Strongest Tides in Europe. A documentary tracing the site from the founding of the first sanctuary in 708 through its medieval pilgrimage peak.
2026-04-29 - A Saint Michael Tattoo, Start to Finish. A tattoo artist works through a large St Michael piece, showing the archangel's continued place as a protective motif in contemporary tattoo culture.
2026-04-30 - St Michael's, Bamberg, Reopens After Fourteen Years of Restoration. The Archdiocese of Bamberg reports the reopening of the former abbey church of St Michael after a fourteen-year renovation.
2026-05-07 - The 8 May Feast of the Apparition of Saint Michael. Second reading of Butler's account of the Gargano apparition, marking the day the Roman calendar long kept as the feast of the Apparition.
2026-05-09 - Bulgarian National Television Visits St Archangel Michael Church, Varna. BNT's religion programme The House of Faith reports from the first Bulgarian church built in Varna, dedicated to the Archangel Michael.
2026-05-13 - St Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery: Destruction and Rebirth. A Ukrainian account tracing the Kyiv monastery from Kyivan Rus through its twentieth-century destruction to its reconstruction.
2026-05-24 - Coptic Doxology of the Archangel Michael, in Arabic. The doxology (dhoxologia) sung for Michael in the Coptic Orthodox rite, here in Arabic with the text on screen.
2026-05-27 - The Latter-day Saint Adam-God Teaching Explained. An examination of Brigham Young's teaching about Adam, whom Latter-day Saint scripture identifies with the archangel Michael, and how Mormons have handled the doctrine since.
2026-05-27 - The Prayer to St Michael Removed from Every Mass in the 1960s. An account of the Leonine prayer said after Low Mass for seventy-eight years until the 1964 instruction Inter Oecumenici suppressed it, and of its later revival.
2026-06-01 - Manuscript Spotlight: Codex Sinaiticus. Greg Lanier walks through the history and layout of the fourth-century pandect Bible, with case studies in the Psalter and Greek Old Testament.
2026-06-04 - The Book of Daniel, the Four Kingdoms and Imperial Eschatology. Historian Christopher Bonura discusses the reception of Daniel's four-kingdom scheme in medieval apocalyptic thought and how the Roman empire was fitted into it.
2026-06-10 - The Angel of Portugal: From the Nation's Origins to Fatima. Portuguese-language history programme on the Guardian Angel of Portugal tradition and its link to the angelic apparitions reported at Fatima in 1916.
2026-06-17 - Why Ethiopians Keep the Feast of Saint Michael on Sene 12. An Amharic explanation of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo monthly commemoration of Qeddus Mikael, tied to the Dirsane Mikael homiletic tradition.
2026-06-17 - The Monks Leave Mont-Saint-Michel. France 3 Normandie reports the departure of the Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem from the abbey after twenty-five years, ending an era of resident monastic life at the shrine.
2026-06-18 - Mont-Saint-Michel: Architecture and the Wars It Survived. Documentary on the abbey's construction, the 1204 fire and rebuilding, and the sieges the island withstood in the Middle Ages.
2026-06-19 - Inside Ethiopia's Great Saint Michael Gathering. A close look at the Ethiopian Orthodox celebration at CMC St Michael Church, one of the most revered Michael churches in Addis Ababa.
2026-06-19 - Thousands in White at Addis Ababa's Saint Michael Celebration. The annual Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo feast of Qeddus Mikael at CMC St Michael Church in Addis Ababa, with worshippers in traditional white shamma.
2026-06-19 - Pope Shenouda III Teaches on the Archangel Michael. Coptic Orthodox teaching drawn from the late Pope Shenouda III on Michael as commander of the heavenly host, a central figure of Coptic veneration.
2026-07-19 - How Michael Became One of the World's Most Common Names. An account of the name's Hebrew origin, its meaning 'Who is like God', and how the archangel's cult carried it across languages and continents.
2026-07-22 - An Iconographer's Archangel Michael, Start to Finish. Greek iconographer Taxiarchis Giannikos shows the full studio process for a detailed Byzantine icon of Michael.
2026-08-03 - The Human and Beyond: Humans and Angels. Shalom Hartman Institute shiur by Melila Hellner-Eshed on the rabbinic comparison of humans and angels, from the institute's Rabbinic Torah Seminar.
2026-08-06 - A Walk Through St Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, Kyiv. A Ukrainian walk through the monastery grounds, its golden domes and bells, filmed during the war.
2026-08-12 - Who Is Angel Mikaeel in Islam?. An English-language Islamic account of Mika'il, the angel of rain and rizq named in Quran 2:98, and his role in Islamic teaching on the unseen.
2026-08-13 - The Iconography and Symbols of Saint Michael. A breakdown of Michael's standard attributes in art - the sword, the scales and the defeated dragon - and what each signifies.
2026-08-18 - Reading 1 Enoch 1:9 in an Ethiopic Manuscript. Ge'ez language lesson reading the passage of 1 Enoch quoted at Jude 14-15 directly from an Ethiopic manuscript.
2026-08-18 - The Iconography of Saint Michael the Archangel. A Spanish-language talk on how the artistic tradition settled on Michael as an armed warrior and what each attribute signifies.
2026-08-20 - Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture: Michael on the Right. A discussion of Mika Ahuvia's scholarly study of angels in late-antique Judaism, arguing that Michael and Gabriel were central rather than marginal to Jewish thought.

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