War in Heaven
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The War in Heaven is a mythic conflict between supernatural forces in traditional Christian cosmology, attested in the Book of Revelation alongside proposed parallels in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead
The Son casts the rebels out of Heaven. 1866 Illustration by Gustave Doré for John Milton's Paradise Lost.
The Fall of the Rebel Angels; left hand panel of Hieronymus Bosch's The Haywain Triptych, c. 1500
War in Heaven by Pieter Paul Rubens, 1619
Michael and Satan, by Guido Reni, c. 1636
Michaelmas
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Michaelmas, also known as the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, the Feast of the Archangels, and the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels, is a Christian festival observed in many Western
War in Heaven
…artists, both in paintings and in sculptures, including works by Pieter Paul Rubens, Guido Reni and Jacob Epstein. A choral antiphon for the feast of Michaelmas, Factum est Silentium, paraphrases the events described in Revelation 8:1 and Revelation 12:7–12: Factum est silentium in caelo, Dum committeret bellum…
Saint Michael the Archangel
Saint Michael defeats the Dragon, from a 12th-century manuscript.
Michaelmas daisy
Blue Mass