Reliquary / Relic：St. Michael the Archangel Stone（Cave Shrine）with certificat for Sale

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Reliquary / Relic：St. Michael the Archangel Stone（Cave Shrine）with certificat For Sale

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Reliquary / Relic：St. Michael the Archangel Stone（Cave Shrine）with certificat:
$62.50

Size：cm
Memorial：8 May – Apparition of Saint Michael and Protector of Cornwall
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In the southeast of Italy is a sanctuary dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel high atop a mountainous promontory called Monte Gargano. It is the oldest shrine dedicated to St. Michael in western Europe.
The feast of the Apparition of Saint Michael commemorates appearance of the archangel to a man named Gargan in 492 on Mount Gargano near Manfredonia in southern Italy. Gargan and others were pasturing cattle on the mountain; a bull wandered off and hid in a cave. An arrow was shot into the cave, but it came flying back out and wounded the archer. The cowherds went to their bishop who ordered three days of fasting and prayer to seek an explanation for the mystery. At the end of the three days Michael appeared to the bishop and requested a church built in the honour of the Holy Angels in the cave.
Joined by others bishops along with the priest and people of the town, it was reported that eagles appeared over the bishops in the procession to shelter them from the rays of the sun with their outstretched wings. When they finally arrived at the mouth of the grotto the Archangel appeared again, stating, “It is not your task to consecrate the Basilica I built. I who founded it, I myself consecrated it. But you go in and go to this place, placed under my protection.”
St. Michael didn’t wait for the bishop after all, and instead went and consecrated the grotto himself. When everyone processed inside they were amazed to see an altar was already erected with a cross upon it. They also found a footprint of St. Michael embedded on the rock floor. The first Mass in the Grotto of St. Michael was then offered.
Since that time, the grotto has affectionately been called the “Celestial Basilica” as it is the only proper Christian church never to have been consecrated by the humans hands of a bishop. It has the honor of being personally consecrated by St. Michael the Archangel to whom it is dedicated.
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