Michael the Archangel in Warsaw and its Designer Wadysaw Pieńkowski Despite the considerable influence he exerted on post-war church architecture in Poland, the designer Wadysaw Pieńkowski (1907–1991) is today an altogether forgotten figure. The current paper outlines his biography and his early...
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about...
St Michael’s Mount appears in history only with the Norman conquest, when a series of charters document its existence from the time of Edward the Confessor. A priory of Benedictine monks came into being atop the mount, and this was given to the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy. It...
Jude 1:9 But when the Archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.” Met. Hierotheos Vlachos of Nafpaktos Also related to the foregoing is the teaching of both...
Michael the Archangel in Warsaw and its Designer Wadysaw Pieńkowski Despite the considerable influence he exerted on post-war church architecture in Poland, the designer Wadysaw Pieńkowski (1907–1991) is today an altogether forgotten figure. The current paper outlines his biography and his early...
His Christian name of Michelangelo suggests that his exact birth date was September 29, the feast day of the Archangel Michael. Despite assertions by Giulio Mancini, author of one of the earliest biographies of Caravaggio, that the artist’s father was majordomo and architect to the powerful ...