‘Believers, look up—take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. For after all (as we have already noted), God has given “his angels charge of you, to guard you in all your ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone” (Psalm 91:11–12 RSV)’.
–Billy Graham, Angels: God’s Secret Agents (New York: Doubleday, 1975)
For #Michaelmas – the feast of St Michael and All Angels – we wanted to share this censing angel on the wall of the Abbey's south transept. Carved in the 1250s, it was originally richly coloured and gilded and is among the most important examples of English medieval sculpture of… pic.twitter.com/jMzzYZlOKv
— Westminster Abbey (@wabbey) September 29, 2026