Happy feastday to Michaels, Gabriels and Raphaels and any variation on the theme

September 29 is the Feast of the Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. These are the three named in the Catholic and Orthodox versions of the Bible. Michael and  Gabriel are well-known to Portestants as well, but Raphael appears only in one of the deuterocanonical books (Tobit) and may not be as familiar.

In the Kabbalah, in the Book of Enoch which is canonical in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and in the writings of various Church fathers, there are other named archangels. Anglicans celebrate today as a feast of All Angels, thus covering the bases without having an endless litany of difficult names to pronounce.

How wise some liturgical traditions are!