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.
Part of Saint Michael
31 moments in this segment.
- - Italy-0121 - New Angel. The bronze Archangel Michael crowning Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, photographed 2010; the statue commemorates the vision of Michael sheathing his sword over the city in 590.
- - The Skull of Aubert. Short history segment on Saint Aubert and the relic at Avranches, whose pierced skull the tradition attributes to the Archangel's insistent finger.
- - The Apparition of Saint Michael at Monte Sant'Angelo. Italian Catholic broadcaster Tv2000 on the Gargano apparition tradition that founded Western Europe's oldest sanctuary of the archangel.
- - Saint Aubert Founds Mont-Saint-Michel. French history short on the tradition that in 708 the Archangel appeared to Aubert, bishop of Avranches, instructing him to build a sanctuary on Mont Tombe.
- - The Angel of Peace at Fatima. EWTN Vaticano visits the Loca do Anjo near Aljustrel, where the three Fatima children reported seeing an angel in 1916, a year before the Marian apparitions.
- - The Gargano Apparitions Recounted in Spanish. Spanish-language Catholic broadcaster's account of the successive appearances tradition places in the Monte Gargano cave.
- - The Phenomenon of the Michael Apparitions in Puglia. Italian report from a 2018 press tour tracing the caves, pilgrim paths and legends associated with the Archangel from the Cervaro valley to Monte Sant'Angelo.
- - The Seven Best-Known Reported Apparitions of Saint Michael. Spanish-language Catholic survey of the seven appearances most commonly listed in the devotional tradition, from the Gargano to Mexico.
- - Inside the Gargano Cave With EWTN. EWTN travel segment entering the Monte Sant'Angelo cave, which the tradition identifies as the only site where Michael is said to have appeared in the fifth century.
- - Saint Michael in the Latin Mass and the 8 May Feast. Discussion of Michael's place in the traditional Roman liturgy, including the 8 May feast of the Apparition and the calendar changes of 1960-1970.
- - The Gargano Apparition Under Pope Gelasius. Homily setting the Gargano apparition in the pontificate of Gelasius I (492-496) and reviewing the offices the tradition assigns to Michael.
- - A Curator at Castel Sant'Angelo. Frick Collection chief curator Xavier Salomon on how Hadrian's mausoleum was transformed into the papal stronghold crowned by a statue of Michael sheathing his sword.
- - Father Sean Connolly on the Gargano Apparitions. Talk recounting the traditional narrative of the apparitions at Monte Gargano, given before an altar holding a relic stone from the cave.
- - The 8 May Liturgy of the Apparition of Saint Michael. Traditional Latin liturgy for the feast of the Apparition of Saint Michael on Mount Gargano, celebrated by the Institute of Christ the King in Limerick.
- - Traditional Latin Mass of the Apparition of Saint Michael, 2020. Full traditional Roman Rite liturgy for the 8 May feast commemorating the Gargano apparition.
- - Smarthistory: Rome's Layered History at Castel Sant'Angelo. Art historians at the Mausoleum of Hadrian, built 139 CE, which became a papal fortress and took the name of the Archangel after the plague tradition of 590.
- - Roberto O'Farrill on the Apparitions of Saint Michael Worldwide. Spanish-language conference by a journalist accredited to the Holy See press office, surveying the reported apparitions of the Archangel across different countries.
- - EWTN Bookmark: James Day on Saint Michael the Archangel. Long-form interview with author James Day on the history of Michael devotion, its apparition traditions and shrines.
- - San Miguel del Milagro: A Mexican Shrine Documentary. A Spanish-language documentary on the Tlaxcala shrine that grew from a reported 1631 apparition of Michael to the Indigenous convert Diego Lazaro.
- - Immacolata Aulisa on the Apparitions of Saint Michael. Academic lecture by the Bari historian on how the cult of Michael reached the West in the fifth century and spread from the Gargano to Mont-Saint-Michel and the Val di Susa.
- - The Reported Apparitions of Saint Michael in Mexico. A Mexican Catholic account of the apparition traditions attached to San Miguel del Milagro and to Michael's veneration in colonial and modern Mexico.
- - The Gargano Apparition Recounted for the 8 May Feast. Devotional film written by Fr Sean Connolly for the 2022 feast of the Apparition, narrating the traditional account of the Archangel's appearances in the Apulian cave.
- - "Monte Sant`Angelo, ein mystischer Ort im Herzen des Gargano" 01. The sanctuary of San Michele Arcangelo at Monte Sant'Angelo on the Gargano, photographed 2023; the cave shrine where Michael was said to have appeared from 490 onwards, the oldest Michael sanctuary in Western Europe.
- - The Archangel Appears Three Times to Bishop Aubert. Italian account of the founding tradition of Mont-Saint-Michel, in which Michael appeared three times to the bishop of Avranches, and its link to the Gargano.
- - Pope Gregory the Great: The Papal Years, 590-604. DW history segment on Gregory I, during whose pontificate the Roman plague procession and the tradition of Michael's appearance over Hadrian's mausoleum are placed.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.