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.
Part of Saint Michael
36 moments in this segment.
- - Герб Києва 1578. Early depiction of the Kyiv civic arms with the Archangel Michael, before 1578.
- - 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.
- - Kyiv. Carsly Tytulyarnyk. The arms of Kyiv with the Archangel Michael in the Russian Tsarskiy Titulyarnik armorial of 1672. Slightly under 1000px; scarce heraldic primary source.
- - US Signal Corps Film of the St Mihiel Offensive, September 1918. National Archives footage shot by the Army Signal Corps during the 10-25 September 1918 offensive at Saint-Mihiel.
- - Collar of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George MET SF-1975-1-2497. Collar of the Order of St Michael and St George, 20th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- - Kyiv - Mykhailiv belltower 150801. The bell tower of St Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, Kyiv, photographed 2001.
- - 2008081010911097, Kyiv, St Michaels Monastery. St Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv, modern photograph; Michael is the patron of the city.
- - Співуче поле. Хрещення Русі 08. Modern monument imagery in Kyiv; the archangel remains the city's civic and military emblem.
- - Why the Feast of the Archangel Michael Is Kyiv's Own Day. A Ukrainian Orthodox Church programme explaining Michael's status as guardian angel of Kyiv, marked on 21 November.
- - Saint Michael the Archangel and the Military. A Catholic broadcaster's reflection on why Michael, understood as leader of God's armies, became patron of soldiers.
- - 80-391-9007 Михайлівський монастир собор. St Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, Kyiv, photographed 2016; the cathedral was demolished by Soviet authorities in 1936 and rebuilt in the 1990s.
- - Statue archange Saint-Michel en Ukraine. Monument to the Archangel Michael in Ukraine, photographed 2017; Michael's role as civic and military protector is central to Ukrainian public imagery.
- - Bulgaria Marks Archangel's Day and Police Day Together. Bulgarian news noting that the feast of the Archangel Michael doubles as the national day of the police, one of many state forces that take him as patron.
- - Герб Києва. The coat of arms of Kyiv showing the Archangel Michael with sword and scabbard, photographed 2020; Michael has been the city's patron and emblem since the medieval period.
- - Saint Michael's Ceremony 2020. Military Saint Michael's Day observance, 29 September 2020.
- - The 82nd Airborne Pays Homage to Saint Michael, 2019. US Army footage from Fort Bragg of the Division marking its patron saint, filmed by the 49th Public Affairs Detachment.
- - Saint Michael as Patron Saint of Police Officers. A short account of Michael's patronage of police, marked on his 29 September feast in many American forces.
- - Saint Michael's Ceremony 2021. Saint Michael's Day ceremony in a NATO military context, 29 September 2021; the archangel is patron of paratroopers and several police forces.
- - Operation Michael: The German Spring Offensive of 1918. A military museum on the German offensive of 21 March 1918, codenamed Michael after the archangel who was widely invoked as a German patron.
- - Why the Soviets Destroyed Kyiv's St Michael's Cathedral. Ukrainian historian Oleksandr Alfiorov on the cathedral completed in 1113, its survival of the Mongol invasion and its Soviet demolition.
- - The 82nd Airborne Division's Annual St Michael's Jump, 2022. The Division's ministry team hosts 350 paratroopers for its annual St Michael's Jump at Salerno Drop Zone, run as chaplain-led spiritual fitness training.
- - The Angel That Has Protected Kyiv Since 1672. On the Archangel Michael as patron of Kyiv and his place on the city's coat of arms, adopted in the seventeenth century.
- - St Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery: Nine Hundred Years. A Ukrainian documentary on the Kyiv monastery founded in the twelfth century, demolished by Soviet authorities in the 1930s and rebuilt after independence.
- - Police Chaplains in Flint on Saint Michael's Protection. A diocesan journalist visits Catholic police chaplains in Flint, Michigan on the feast of the archangels, on how officers use Michael's patronage.
- - Reviving Michaelmas as an American Catholic Custom. An argument for restoring the 29 September feast, noting Michael's patronage of police officers, first responders and military personnel.
- - The American First Army and the St Mihiel Offensive of 1918. A National WWI Museum lecture on the September 1918 offensive at Saint-Mihiel, a Meuse town named for the archangel and the first American-led battle of the war.
- - Saint Michael, Patron of Kyiv, in Wartime. A short piece on Michael's place on Kyiv's emblem and his use as a symbol of protection since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - Ragusa Marks St Michael, Patron of the Police. Sicilian television coverage of the 2025 police feast day for the archangel.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.