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Michael Goes North

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Michael repeatedly urged St. Aubert (d. c. 725), bishop of Avranches, to build a church in his honor. Fearful at first that he saw a demon and not a true angel, Aubert at last relented and traveled to the outcrop of granite that jutted so dramatically from the waters of the nearby bay. There, beneath the summit, as Michael had foretold, the bishop found a steer stolen from him. In accord with angelic direction, where the beast had tramped out a circle with its feet, the bishop laid the foundations for Michael’s prayer house. The round shape of the sanctuary deliberately imitated the cavern on Monte Gargano from where Aubert retrieved relics to complete his dedication.1 Here on the desolate Breton frontier Aubert founded Mont Saint-Michel, where subjects of the Frankish kings, the “adopted” Christian “Children of Israel,” could pass from “Egypt” to the “Promised Land.” The landscape itself permitted this miraculous movement into apocalyptic space for, on October 16 when a festival commemorated Michael’s apparition to Aubert, the waters surrounding the island routinely held themselves in check.2 At that time the archangel’s votaries crossed the “Red Sea” to “penetrate the stars of heaven by means of the indwelling reach of contemplation.”3

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  1. Revelatio ecclesiae sancti Michaelis archangeli in Monte qui dicitur Tumba V, edited by Pierre Bouet and Olivier Desbordes, Chroniques latines du Mont Saint-Michel (IXe–XIIe siècle) 1 (Caen: Presses universitaires de Caen, 2009), pp. 98–99. All Latin citations are from Bouet’s edition. Mabillon’s edition is published as Apparitio de Sancti Michaelis in Monte Tumba, AASS, September 8.76–79, which John Charles Arnold translates into English: “The ‘Revelatio Ecclesiae de Sancti Michaelis’ and the Mediterranean Origins of Mont St.-Michel,” The Heroic Age 10 (May 2007), http://www.mun.ca/mst/heroicage/issues/10/arnold.html. All English citations are from that publication. For the relics, see François Neveux, “Les reliques du Mont-Saint-Michel,” in Culte et pèlerinages à Saint Michel en occident, les trois monts dédiés à l’Archange, edited by Pierre Bouet, Giorgio Otranto, and André Vauchez (Rome: École française de Rome, 2003), pp. 245–269. Also, Jacques Dubois, “Le trésor des reliques de l’abbaye du Mont Saint–Michel,” Millénaire monastique, vol. 1, pp. 501–593.

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