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Here, at Manfredonia, we are already under the shadow of the holy mountain and the archangel's wings, but the usual representations of him are childishly emasculate the negation of his divine and heroic character. This one portrays a genuine warrior-angel of the old type: grave and grim.
Michael, the warrior-angel, who, as all the world knew, was her chief counsellor and guide, and who, no doubt, blazed, a familiar figure, from some window in the cathedral to which this his living picture rode without a pause, to give thanks to God before she thought of refreshment or rest.
The great flaming disc seems to poise for a little, and all around it pierced here and there by the steely rays the clouds hang like tossing scarlet plumes. Like a warrior-angel sped On a mighty mission, Light and life about him shed A transcendent vision! Mailed in gold and fire he stands, And, with splendours shaken, Bids the slumbering seas and lands Quicken and awaken. Day is on us.
Jeanne's young heart was full of pity already, and of yearning over the helpless mother-country which had no champion to stand for her. "She had great doubts at first whether it was St. Michael, but afterwards when he had instructed her and shown her many things, she believed firmly that it was he." It was this warrior-angel who opened the matter to her, and disclosed her mission.
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