Angels are fascinating. At our command, they bring us aid, comfort, healing, love and protection. Stories abound of angel apparitions on battlefields, in hospitals, at moments both joyful and sad, during cataclysm and chaos. They love us, and more and more of us are learning to love them, too. While the angelic hosts are virtually numberless, above them in the cosmic hierarchy are the great archangels. Some of them we know by name. Michael, prince of the archangels, who cast Lucifer and his rebel angels out of heaven. Gabriel, angel of the Annunciation, who came to Mary to announce the
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