Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jhpb@garage.att.com (Joseph H Buehler) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Jesus = Michael Archangel =/= angel Message-ID: Date: 14 Apr 91 02:50:08 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 17 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article BINDNER@auvm.auvm.edu writes: The name Michael does not mean "one who is like to God," it mean "Who is like to God?" It is the phrase St. Michael used to defeat Satan, as the answer is no one is like to God. One sometimes sees him represented as a soldier with a flaming sword, doing the devil in, with these words on his shield: Quis ut Deus? (Who is like God?) One of the primary seven altars in the Vatican basilica has the title of St. Michael. The picture over it is a famous one by Guido Reni, I think. St. Michael's primary church is on Mount Gargano, I believe. There's a feast day in the liturgical calendar that commemmorates an apparition there, if I recall right.