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.
Part of Saint Michael
19 moments in this segment.
- - Esaltazione della Giustizia divina e angelo con scapolare, by Biagio Bellotti. Biagio Bellotti, Exaltation of Divine Justice with an angel bearing a scapular, 1761-69.
- - Cueteando. Fireworks during a night fiesta at the San Miguel Arcángel parish, San Miguel de Allende, 2012.
- - Procesión de Semana Santa en San Miguel de Allende Guanajuato Abril 2015 03. Holy Week procession in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 2015; the town's processional culture centres on its Archangel Michael parish.
- - Szkaplerz sw. Michala Archaniola. Polish example of the Saint Michael scapular, photographed 2017.
- - The Life of Saint Michael, Patron of the Church and of France. A French Catholic theologian's account of Michael's scriptural appearances and his historic patronage of the Church and of France.
- - Scapular of St. Michael the Archangel. The scapular of Saint Michael the Archangel, a Catholic devotional garment in the distinctive shield shape, photographed 2018.
- - A Polish Priest of the Michaelite Order on Exorcism and St Michael. Fr Peter Prusakiewicz of the Congregation of St Michael the Archangel discusses the archangel's place in the rite of exorcism.
- - Sancte Michael Archangele: A Gregorian Chant Prayer. The sung Latin prayer to Michael, in a melody from the traditional monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe in New Mexico.
- - A Mixtec Patronal Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel. Full documentation of a patronal fiesta for San Miguel Arcangel in Mexico's Mixteca region, showing processions, dances and village liturgy.
- - Why Leo XIII Composed the Prayer to St Michael. An account of the 1886 Leonine prayer, its insertion into the prayers said after Low Mass and the disputed vision story attached to its composition.
- - The Fiesta Procession of San Miguel Arcangel in Manila. The 29 September patronal procession for St Michael in Manila, showing Filipino Catholic devotion to the archangel.
- - Raising the Chimal: Saint Michael's Fiesta at Toliman, Queretaro. Documentation of one of Mexico's longest patronal cycles, in which Otomi communities of Toliman raise a towering chimal for Michael's feast.
- - The Chaplet of Saint Michael: History and Practice. The origin of the chaplet, its nine salutations to the nine choirs of angels, and how the devotion is prayed.
- - San Miguel Arcangel Grand Procession, 2024. A full Filipino patronal procession for St Michael, one of the largest annual Michael observances in Asia.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.