Hebrew: “Who is like God?” Saint Michael is one of the principal
angels; his name was the war-cry of the good angels in the
battle fought in heaven against the enemy and his followers.
Four times his name is recorded in Scripture: - (1) Daniel 10:13
sqq., Gabriel says to Daniel, when he asks God to permit the
Jews to return to Jerusalem: “The Angel [D.V. prince] of the
kingdom of the Persians resisted me . . . and, behold Michael,
one of the chief princes, came to help me…and none is my helper
in all these things, but Michael your prince.” - (2) Daniel 12,
the Angel speaking of the end of the world and the Antichrist
says: “At that time shall Michael rise up, the great prince, who
standeth for the children of thy people.” - (3) In the Catholic
Epistle of Saint Jude: “When Michael the Archangel, disputing
with the devil, contended about the body of Moses”, etc. Saint
Jude alludes to an ancient Jewish tradition of a dispute between
Michael and Satan over the body of Moses, an account of which is
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