The three Archangels—Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael—are the only angels explicitly named in Sacred Scripture, each playing a significant role in the history of salvation.

Saint Michael is known as the "Prince of the Heavenly Host," leading all the angels. His name, derived from Hebrew, means "Who is like God?" and was the rallying cry of the faithful angels against Lucifer and his followers during their rebellion against God. He appears four times in the Bible: in Daniel 10 and 12, the Letter of Jude, and Revelation.

Michael and his angels cast Lucifer and the evil spirits into Hell. He is invoked for protection against Satan and all forms of evil. In 1899, Pope Leo XIII, inspired by a prophetic vision foreseeing the evils that would befall the Church and the world in the 20th century, in

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