1. Angels Holy, Angels of Light | 2. Rolling Away the Stone |. 3. Appearance of the Angel | 4. The Angel of Sleep and the Angel of Death | 5. To the Realms of Endless Day | 6. Soothing Troubled Hearts | 7. Serving the Savior | 8. The Legend of St Catherine | 9. Angels Sexless | 10. Gathering the Elect | 11. The Knowledge of Angels | 12. Perpetual Youth | 13. The Apparition of the Angel | 14. Thy Prayer is Heard | 15. The Joyous Message | 16. The Sign of Angelic Ministry | 17. Gabriel, the Messenger of God | 18. They Serve on Earth and Sing in Heaven | 19. Embassador Extraordinary | 20. Gabriel's Symbol, the Lily | 21. The Visit to Mary | 22. A Comforting Assurance | 23. Sweetest Name in Seraph Song | 24. Guardian of Celestial Treasury | 25. Angels Pictured by Artists | 26. Angels in Sculpture | 27. The Archangel Gabriel | 28. The Mystic Rose | 29. The Prince of Peace | 30. Good Tidings of Geat Joy | 31. Gloria in Excelsis
EMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY.
July 19.
And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God onto a city of Galilee
named Nazareth.—Luke 1:26.
THE Archangel Gabriel is mentioned by name but twice in the
New Testament, in Luke 1:19, 26. On each of these occasions
he filled the office of a messenger or bearer of important
tidings. St. Gabriel has been raany times portrayed as the
messenger announcing the birth of John the Baptist and that of
Jesus Christ. The great number of the representations of the
Annunciation to the Virgin Mary make it difficult to select those
of which to speak. The earliest pictures of this event portray
it with great simplicity, purity and grace. A spiritual mystery
is being depicted, and is handled with sincere reverence and the
utmost delicacy. The scene is usually the portico of an ecclesiastical
edifice. The archangel is majestic and beautiful; is
clothed in white, wearing the tunic and pellium. His wings are
large and brilliant with many colors, and his abundant hair is
bound with a jeweled tiara. He bears either the scepter of power
or a lily in one hand, while the other is extended in benediction.
Sometimes he holds a scroll inscribed with the words, "Ave
Maria, gratia plena," Hail! Mary, full of grace; which words
Dante represents Gabriel as constantly repeating in Paradise.
—Clara Erskine Clement.
Gabriel, this day by proof thou shalt behold,
Thou and all the angels conversant on earth
With man or men's affairs, now I begin
To verify that solemn message, late
On which I sent thee to the Virgin pure
In Galilee that she should bear a son,
Great in renown, and call'd the Son of God. —Milton.
The Angel (who came down to earth
With tidings of the peace so many years
Wept for in vain, that op'd the heavenly gates
From their long interdict) before us seemed
In a sweet act, so sculptured to the life,
He looked no silent image. One had sworn
He had said :'' Hail !'' for she was imaged there,
By whom the key did open to God's love. —Dante.
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