Studio design: drawn with AI image tools to the iconography of Christianity, checked against that tradition's rules and approved by a person. Captions are set in real type, never generated. Made to order in the USA.
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Michael, whose name asks 'Who is like God?', is the archangel Christians have long pictured as captain of heaven's armies. Revelation tells of a war in heaven in which he and his angels cast down the dragon. Artists show him armoured and winged, sword raised, the defeated dragon beneath his feet. Western churches keep his feast at Michaelmas on 29 September; Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches gather the angels on 8 November. Cities and mountaintop shrines have long been placed under his watch.
A portrait of St Michael the Archangel in the devotional painting style of Christianity. He is venerated in Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches, printed on museum-grade matte paper.
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