Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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ST/JD/38

Michael the Archangel

Gender
Male
Floruit (period)
Biblical
Floruit date range
? - ?
Description
Appears in Daniel 10:13ff and 12:1 as 'one of the chief princes' of the heavenly host and as the special guardian or protector of Israel. In Revelation (12:7--9) he is the principal fighter of the heavenly battle against the devil, 'who was cast unto the earth and his angels were thrown down with him'. The formal cult of St Michael appears to have begu in the East. A famous apparition of St Michael on Monte Gargano (SE Italy) in the late 5th cent. was important in spreading the cult to the West. Local feasts which commemorated apparitions at Monte Gargano and Mont-Saint-Michel were kept on 8 May and 16 October. ODS, 368--9.
Categories
major type minor type confidence notes
None Angels & Archangels 100 None
ethnicity
ethnicity description confidence notes
no ethnicity available
feast days
month day fixed? description notes
10 16 yes Michael in Monte Tumba Commemoration of the Dedication of the first church of Mont-Saint-Michel.
5 8 yes Translation or Apparition of St Michael None
9 29 yes Michael and All Angels None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
no attributes given
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations