HISTORY OF SAINT MICHEL

Feast 29 september
Patron saint of Brussels, the sick, the fighter.
Invoked against tentation or sea storms.

His cult, very popular, is ancient. Michel has known in the Judaic and christian tradition like the regular representative of God and entrusted by him to applicate his orders, near to humans. He has considered like the heavently army's chief, the celestial prince and protector of Israel people.

The New Testament has appeared him like the winner of the satanic dragon. In the Jude's epistle, he is showed to argue against the devil concerning the possession of Moses's corpse. The apocryphale writtingshave often mentioned him.

It's probable in Phrygia that was born his cult, region where he was particularly considered like the sick's protector.

St Aubert was inspired by a Michel's vision on the Gargano mountain in Italy for the building of his tomb at the Mont St Michel (France). That contributed to his veneration in Occident.

He has often considered like the equivalent to Charon, the death's frontier runner in the pagan's next world.

He was knew by west soldiers like the warrior who protects them and obtains victory against the maleficent forces. He is the guarantor of good right.

Often represented with a sword, he fighted the dragon and won the battle.

At the medieval epoch, he was represented weighing the death's souls because of one thought that he had the power to juge them.