Happy Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, the Angel of Peace! The Church attributes four offices to St. Michael, as the Catholic Encyclopedia summarizes: To fight against Satan; To rescue the souls of the faithful from the power of the enemy, especially at the hour of death; to be the champion of God’s people: the Jews in the Old Law, the Christians in the New Testament; therefore, he was the patron of the Church, and of the orders of knights during the Middle Ages; To call away from earth men’s

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