Saint Michael's basilica in Monte Sant'Angelo

The Archangel above the entrance to St. Michael's basilica in Monte Sant'Angelo.	Make a virtual visit to the different parts of the sanctuary
The statue of Saint Michael from 1507 by A.Contucci, the grotto.	The Archangel St. Michael. A Byzantine-longobardic work from the 8th century. Saint Michael's basilica in Monte Sant'Angelo.
The grotto where Saint Michael the Achangel appeared in the V century.	The Pope John Paul II visits the grotto of St. Michael the 24 of May 1987.

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Litany to Saint Michael Archangel

lord, have mercy
Christ, have mercy
lord, have mercy
Christ, hear us
Christ, graciously hear us
God, the fader in Heaven - have mercy on us
God, the son, Redeemer of the world
God, the Holy Spirit
Holy Mary- pray for us
St. Michael, Prince of the Seraphim- pray for us
St. Michael, Ambassador of the lord, God of Israel
St. Michael, Assessor of the Most Holy Trinity
St. Michael, Chief of Paradise
St. Michael, most brilliant star of the angelic order
St. Michael, Mediator of divine graces
St. Michael, most splendid sun of charity
St. Michael, first model of humility
St. Michael, example of gentleness
St. Michael, the first flame of most ardent zeal
St. Michael, worthy of admiration
St. Michael, worthy of veneration
St. Michael, worthy of praise
St. Michael, Minister of divine clemency
St. Michael, most vigorous guide
St. Michael, dispenser of joy
St. Michael, comforter of the discouraged
St. Michael, Angel of peace
St. Michael, comforter of the sick
St. Michael, guide of the erring
St. Michael, support of those who hope
St. Michael, guardian of those who have faith
St. Michael, protector of the Church
St. Michael, generous dispenser
St. Michael, refuge of the poor
St. Michael, relief of the oppresed
St. Michael, conqueror of the demons
St. Michael, our fortitude
St. Michael, our refuge
St. Michael, our advocate
St. Michael, chief of the angels
St. Michael, comfort of the Patriarchs
St. Michael, guide of the Prophets
St. Michael, guide of the Apostles
St. Michael, comfort of the Martyrs
St. Michael, joy of the Confessors
St. Michael, custodian of the Virgins
St. Michael honour of all the Saints
Lamb of God, Who taketh away the sins of the world
Lamb of God, Who taketh away the sins of the world
Lamb of God, Who taketh away the sins of the world

Let us pray.

O lord, the powerful intercession of your Archangel Michael, may always and averywhere protect us; free us from every evil and lead us to eternal life Through Jesus Christ, Our lord. Amen.

Act of consecration.

Oh most Noble Prince of the Angelic Hierarchies valorous warior of Almighty God, and zealous lover of His glory, terror of the rebellious angels, and love and delight of all the just ones, my beloved Archangel Saint Michael, desiring to be numbered among your devoted servants, I, today offer and consecrate myself to you, and place myself, my family, and all I possess under your most powerful protection.
I entreat you not to look at how little, I, as your servant have to offer, being only a wretched sinner, but to gaze, rather, with favorable eve at the heartfelt affection with which this offering is made, and remember that if from this day onward I am under your patronage, you must during all my life assist me, and procure for me the pardon of my many grievous offenses,and sins, the grace to love with all my heart my God, my dear Saviour Jesus, and my Sweet Mother Mary, and obtain for me all the help necesary to arrive to my crow of glory.
Defend me always from my spiritual enemies, particularly in the last moment of my life. Come then oh Glorious Prince and succour me in my last strungle, and with your powerful weapon cast far from me into the infernal abysses that prevaricator and proud angel that one day you prostrated in the celestial battle.
Saint Michael defend us in our daily battle so that we may not perish in the last Judgement.

Prayers

O glorious Archangel St. Michael, we, your devotees, humbly greet you and implore your powerful protection.Bid that the divine grace may descend into our hearts.Concede health to the sick, fecundity to our labour, peace among nations, unity to the Church.Bless all the earth, which you deigned to come and succour by your presence on the fortunate mount of Gargano. Save us from earthquake, landslide, lightning, fire, tempest and accidents.
O most benign Archangel, Protector of the Universal Church and our most singular Patron, pray for us. Deliver us from the devil, now and at the extreme point of our lives, after which we hope to be introduced by you into the heavenly kingdom.Amen.

Holy Michael the Archangel, defend us in the daily battle, be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and to thou, Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust down to hell satan and all wicked spirits who wander through the world, for the ruin of souls.Amen.

Exorcismus in satanam et Angelos Apostaticos

Jussu Leonis Pp. XIII Editus
Acta Sanctae Sedis vol. XXIII

Esorcismo contro Satana e gli angeli ribelli

Questo esorcismo può essere recitato da tutti i cattolici, anche laici, per scacciare il demonio ed i suoi seguaci. E' tuttavia preferibile che questo rito sia
celebrato da una Sacerdote o da chi abbia comunque ricevuto l'Ordine dell'Esorcistato. Si raccomanda di utilizzare questa preghiera dopo essersi
confessati e degnamente comunicati, in modo che l'esorcismo abbia efficacia non solo per l'autorità della Chiesa, che lo ha istituito, ma anche per la dignità
di colui che lo pronunzia. In quanto rito Sacramentale, esso ha efficacia "ex opere operantis Ecclesiae".

N nomine Patris, et Filii, + et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.

Ps. lXVII.
Exsurgat Deus et dissipentur inimici ejus: et fugiant qui oderunt eum a facie ejus.
Sicut deficit fumus, deficiant: sicut fluit cera a facie ignis, sic pereant peccatores a facie Dei.

Ps. XXXIV.
Judica, Domine, nocentes me: expugna impugnantes me.
Confundantur et revereantur quaerentes animam meam.
Avertantur retrorsum et confundantur cogitantes mihi mala.
Fiat tamquam pulvis ante faciem venti: et angelus Domini coarctans eos.
Fiat viae illorum tenebrae, et lubricum: et angelus Domini persequens eos.
Quoniam gratis absconderunt mihi interitum laquei sui: supervacue exprobraverunt animam meam.
Veniat illi laqueus quem ignorat; et captio quam anscondit, apprehendat eum: et in laqueum cadat in ipsum.
Anima autem meam exsultabit in Domino: et delectabitur super salutari suo.

Ad Sanctum Michaëlem Archangelum.
Precatio.

Rinceps gloriosissime cælestis militiæ, sancte Michaël Archangele, defende nos in prælio et colluctatione, quæ
nobis adversus principes et potestates, adversus mundi rectores tenebrarum harum, contra spiritualia nequitiæ, in
cælestibusus. Veni in auxilium hominum, quos Deus creavit inexterminabiles, et ad imaginem similitudinis suæ fecit, et
a tyrannide diaboli emit pretio magno. Præliare hodie cum beatorum Angelorum exercitu prælia Domini, sicut pugnasti
contra ducem superbiæ luciferum, et angelos ejus apostaticos: et non valuerunt, neque locus inventus est eorum
amplius in coelo. Sed projectus est draco ille magnus, serpens antiquus, qui vocatur diabolus et satanas, qui seducit
universum orbem; et projectus est in terram, et angeli ejus cum illo missi sunt.

En antiquus inimicus et homicida vehementer erectus est. Transfiguratus in angelum lucis, cum tota malignorum
spirituum caterva late circuit et invadit terram, ut in ea deleat nomen Dei et Christi ejus, animasque ad æternæ gloriæ
coronam destinatas furetur, mactet ac perdat in sempiternum interitum. Virus nequitiæ suæ, tamquam flumen
immundissimum, draco maleficus transfundit in homines depravatos mente et corruptos corde; spiritum mendacii,
impietatis et blasphemiæ; halitumque mortiferum luxuriæ, vitiorum omnium et iniquitatum.

[Ecclesiam, Agni immaculati sponsam, faverrrimi hostes repleverunt amaritudinibus, inebriarunt absinthio; ad omnia
desiderabilia ejus impias miserunt manus. Ubi sedes beatissimi Petri et Cathedra veritatis ad lucem gentium constituta
est, ibi thronum posuerunt abominationis et impietatis suæ; ut percusso Pastore, et gregem disperdere valeant.]

Adesto itaque, Dux invictissime, populo Dei contra irrumpentes spirituales nequitias, et fac victoriam. Te custodem et
patronum sancta veneratur Ecclesia; te gloriatur defensore adversus terrestrium et infernorum nefarias potestates; tibi
tradidit Dominus animas redemptorum in superna felicitate locandas. Deprecare Deum pacis, ut conterat satanam sub
pedibus nostris, ne ultra valeat captivos tenere homines, et Ecclesiæ nocere. Offer nostras preces in conspectu
Altissimi, ut cito anticipent nos misericordiæ Domini, et apprehendas draconem, serpentem antiquum, qui est diabolus
et satanas, ac ligatum mittas in abyssum, ut non seducat amplius gen tes. Hinc tuo confisi præsidio ac tutela, sacri
ministerii nostri auctoritate [si fuerit laicus, vel clericus qui ordinem exorcistatus nondum suscepit, dicat: sacra sanctae
Matris Ecclesiae auctoritate], ad infestationes diabolicæ fraudis repellendas in nomine Jesu Christi Dei et Domini nostri
fidentes et securi aggredimur.

V. Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversæ.
R. Vicit leo de tribu Juda, radix David.
V. Fiat misericordia tua, Domine, super nos.
R. Quemadmodum speravimus in te.
V. Domine, exaudi orationem meam.
R. Et clamor meus ad te veniat.
[si fuerit saltem diaconus subjungat V. Dominus vobiscum.
R. Et cum spiritu tuo.]

Oremus

Eus, et Pater Domini nostri Jesu Christi, invocamus nomen sanctum tuum, et clementiam tuam supplices
exposcimus ut, per intercessionem immaculatæ semper Virginis Dei Genitricis Mariæ, beati Michaëlis Archangeli, beati
Joseph ejusdem beatæ Virginis Sponsi, beatorum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli et omnium Sanctorum, adversus satanam,
omnesque alios immundos spiritus, qui ad nocendum humano generi animasque perdendas pervagantur in mundo,
nobis auxilium præstare digneris. Per eumdem Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.

Exorcismvs

Xorcizamus te, omnis immundus spiritus, omnis satanica potestas, omnis incursio infernalis adversarii, omnis
legio, omnis congregatio et secta diabolica, in nomine et virtute Domini Nostri Jesu + Christi, eradicare et effugare a Dei
Ecclesia, ab animabus ad imaginem Dei conditis ac pretioso divini Agni sanguine redemptis + . Non ultra audeas,
serpens callidissime, decipere humanum genus, Dei Ecclesiam persequi, ac Dei electos excutere et cribrare sicut
triticum + . Imperat tibi Deus altissimus + , cui in magna tua superbia te similem haberi adhuc præsumis; qui omnes
homines vult salvos fieri et ad agnitionem veritaris venire. Imperat tibi Deus Pater + ; imperat tibi Deus Filius + ;
imperat tibi Deus Spiritus Sanctus + . Imperat tibi majestas Christi, æternum Dei Verbum, caro factum + , qui pro
salute generis nostri tua invidia perditi, humiliavit semetipsum facfus hobediens usque ad mortem; qui Ecclesiam suam
ædificavit supra firmam petram, et portas inferi adversus eam nunquam esse prævalituras edixit, cum ea ipse
permansurus omnibus diebus usque ad consummationem sæculi. Imperat tibi sacramentum Crucis + , omniumque
christianæ fidei Mysteriorum virtus +. Imperat tibi excelsa Dei Genitrix Virgo Maria + , quæ superbissimum caput tuum
a primo instanti immaculatæ suæ conceptionis in sua humilitate contrivit. Imperat tibi fides sanctorum Apostolorum
Petri et Pauli, et ceterorum Apostolorum + . Imperat tibi Martyrum sanguis, ac pia Sanctorum et Sanctarum omnium
intercessio +.

Ergo, draco maledicte et omnis legio diabolica, adjuramus te per Deum + vivum, per Deum + verum, per Deum +
sanctum, per Deum qui sic dilexit mundum, ut Filium suum unigenitum daret, ut omnes qui credit in eum non pereat,
sed habeat vitam æternam: cessa decipere humanas creaturas, eisque æternæ perditionìs venenum propinare: desine
Ecclesiæ nocere, et ejus libertati laqueos injicere. Vade, satana, inventor et magister omnis fallaciæ, hostis humanæ
salutis. Da locum Christo, in quo nihil invenisti de operibus tuis; da locum Ecclesiæ uni, sanctæ, catholicæ, et
apostolicæ, quam Christus ipse acquisivit sanguine suo. Humiliare sub potenti manu Dei; contremisce et effuge,
invocato a nobis sancto et terribili nomine Jesu, quem inferi tremunt, cui Virtutes cælorum et Potestates et
Dominationes subjectæ sunt; quem Cherubim et Seraphim indefessis vocibus laudant, dicentes: Sanctus, Sanctus,
Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth.

V. Domine, exaudi orationem meam.
R. Et clamor meus ad te veniat.
[si fuerit saltem diaconus subjungat V. Dominus vobiscum.
R. Et cum spiritu tuo.]

Oremus.

Eus coeli, Deus terræ, Deus Angelorum, Deus Archangelorum, Deus Patriarcharum, Deus Prophetarum, Deus
Apostolorum, Deus Martyrum, Deus Confessorum, Deus Virginum, Deus qui potestatem habes donare vitam post
mortem, requiem post laborem; quia non est Deus præter te, nec esse potest nisi tu creator omnium visibilium et
invisibilium, cujus regni non erit finis: humiIiter majestati gloriæ tuæ supplicamus, ut ab omni infernalium spirituum
potestate, laqueo, deceptione et nequitia nos potenter liberare, et incolumes custodire digneris. Per Christum Dominum
nostrum. Amen.

Ab insidiis diaboli, libera nos, Domine.
Ut Ecclesiam tuam secura tibi facias libertate servire, te rogamus, audi nos.
Ut inimicos sanctæ Ecclesiæ humiliare digneris, te rogamus audi nos.

Et aspergatur locus aqua benedicta