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What puts the "Arch" in Archangel?

by Daria Sockey on September 29, 2012 · 2 comments

Pope St. Gregory the Great explains this and lots of other neat stuff about the archangels in the Office of Readings for today’s feast:

“You should be aware that the word “angel” denotes a function rather than a nature. Those…

Pope Gregory IV and the Mystery of the Square Halo

by David Clayton on April 6, 2012 · 0 comments

I was contacted recently by a reader, a priest who had concelebrated a Station Mass at San Marco di Campidoglio in Rome. He had notice a square halo on one of the figures in the 9th century mosaic in the…