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29 September 8 May - Apparition of Saint Michael and Protector of Cornwall
The feast of the Apparition of Saint Michael commemorates appearance of the archangel to a man named Gargan in 492 on Mount Gargano near Manfredonia in southern Italy. Gargan and others were pasturing cattle on the mountain; a bull wandered off and hid in a cave. An arrow was shot into the cave, but it came flying back out and wounded the archer. The cowherds went to their bishop who ordered three days of fasting and prayer to seek an explanation for the mystery. At the end of the three days Michael appeared to the bishop and requested a church built in the honor of the Holy Angels in the cave. If you find medals or holy cards with 'relics' of Michael, they are probably rock chips from the cave, or pieces of cloth that have touched it.
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Saint Michael's Church, Charlestown, IN, Gallery of images and links Gallery of images of Michael the Archangel
Commercial Links related to Michael the Archangel Commercial Links related to military religious items Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate Catholic Encyclopedia Catholic Online Christian Biographies, by James E Kiefer For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein Goffine's Devout Instructions Google Directory Kirken i Norge - norwegian Lives of the Saints, by John J Crawley New Catholic Dictionary Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson The Saints, by John CoulsonWhenever some act of wondrous power must be performed, Michael is sent, so that his action and his name may make it clear that no one can do what God does by his superior power.
- from a homily by Pope Saint Gregory the Great