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.

Part of Saint Michael

30 moments in this segment.

  1. - St Michael's Mount Filmed by British Pathe, 1949. Newsreel footage of life on the Cornish tidal island, showing the postman rowing out and children crossing to school on the mainland.
  2. - St Michael's Mount 1975 - geograph.org.uk - 2988989. St Michael's Mount photographed in 1975.
  3. - A Year on St Michael's Mount, Filmed in the Early 1990s. A film recording a full year of life and work on the Cornish island named for the archangel, shot roughly twenty-five years before its 2015 posting.
  4. - Causeway to St Michael's Mount - geograph.org.uk - 1858397. The tidal causeway to St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, exposed at low tide.
  5. - Bamberg Blick zum Michelsberg 2. View toward the Michaelsberg in Bamberg, one of the German hilltop sites dedicated to the archangel.
  6. - St Michael's Church at Hildesheim, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. UNESCO and NHK on the Ottonian Romanesque church built 1010-1020 and dedicated to the archangel, listed for its ceiling, stucco and bronze doors.
  7. - National Shrine of Saint Michael and the Archangels 01. The National Shrine of Saint Michael and the Archangels in Manila, Philippines, photographed 2013.
  8. - The Bernward Bronze Doors of St Michael's, Hildesheim. Smarthistory art historians discuss the 1015 bronze doors commissioned by Bishop Bernward for the Ottonian abbey church of St Michael in Saxony.
  9. - Bamberg Kloster Michaelisberg. Michaelsberg abbey church above Bamberg, Germany, photographed 2014; a Benedictine Michael foundation of 1015.
  10. - Jf0056Saint Michael Archangel Church Pampangafvf 25. Saint Michael the Archangel church, Pampanga, Philippines, photographed 2015.
  11. - A Thousand Years of the Michaelsberg, Bamberg. The city of Bamberg on the millennium of the Benedictine abbey of St Michael, whose silhouette has defined the city for a thousand years, and the challenge of conserving it.
  12. - The Magic of St Michael's Mount. The Mount's own short film on its role in British history, showing artefacts from the English Civil War and the Second World War alongside its architectural development.
  13. - Illuminated Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel. The San Miguel Arcángel parish church illuminated at night during the town's Michaelmas season, 2016.
  14. - Rick Steves on St Michael's Mount and Penzance. Travel segment noting the Mount's sequence as Benedictine monastery, fortified castle and finally stately home.
  15. - The Miraculous Icon of the Archangel Michael at Mantamados. An account of the unusual clay relief icon of Michael on Lesvos and the Greek Orthodox traditions attached to it.
  16. - The Architecture of St Michael's at Hildesheim. A short art-history reading of the Ottonian plan and interior of the German abbey church dedicated to Michael.
  17. - 20180907 Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula Brussels 10. The Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudula in Brussels, photographed 2018; the city's Michael-dedicated cathedral.
  18. - The Shrine of St Michael at Tarpon Springs, Florida. GreekReporter on a Greek American shrine in Florida built after a reported healing attributed to the archangel, a Greek Orthodox devotion in the United States.
  19. - Iglesia San Miguel de Arcángel en San Miguel de Allende. The Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, photographed 2019; its neo-Gothic facade was built in the 1880s.
  20. - San Miguel del Milagro, Where Pre-Hispanic Rite Meets Catholicism. Mexican regional press reports on the Tlaxcala sanctuary as a fusion of pre-Hispanic ritual and Hispanic Catholic devotion to the archangel.
  21. - 19 October 1762: The Consecration of the Hamburg Michel. WDR history feature on St Michaelis, the largest baroque church in northern Germany, and its 1762 consecration.
  22. - 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.
  23. - 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.
  24. - 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.
  25. - 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.
  26. - 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.
  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.
  28. - 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.
  29. - 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.
  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.
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