St Michael Macau - Chapel and Cemetery

Chapel of Saint Michael

St Michael Macau - Chapel and Cemetery - One of the paintings of Smirnoff

Set in the historic Catholic Cemetery, this small chapel dates back to 1875.

The pastel green and white walls and beautiful stain glass windows makes this a very charming chapel.

It is surrounded by some of the finest stone carvings.

Chapel of Saint Michael

About St. Michael the Archangel

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St. 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:

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"

Following these Scriptural passages, Christian tradition gives to St. Michael four offices:
* To fight against Satan.
* To rescue the souls of the faithful from the power of the enemy, especially at the hour of death.
* To be the champion of God's people, the Jews in the Old Law, the Christians in the New Testament; therefore he was the patron of the Church, and of the orders of knights during the Middle Ages.
* To call away from earth and bring men's souls to judgment ("signifer S. Michael repraesentet eas in lucam sanctam", Offert. Miss Defunct. "Constituit eum principem super animas suscipiendas", Antiph. off. Cf. "Hermas", Pastor, I, 3, Simil. VIII, 3).

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