An angel is a supernatural being or spirit found in various religions and mythologies. They are often depicted as benevolent celestial beings who act as intermediaries between Heaven and Earth, or as guardian spirits or a guiding influence[1].
Heavenly host refers to a large army of good angels mentioned both in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, as well as other Jewish and Christian texts[2].
Guardian angels are those that are assigned to protect and guide a particular person, group, kingdom, or country[3].
Bellairs Corpus[]
- Persian Emperor Tissaphernes leads his mighty host against the Byzantine city of Ud (Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies, 22).
- It was thought Saint Fidgeta disrupts this heavenly body just as any earthen army, as explained in De Angelis (Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies, 22).
- Four twenty-foot-high cherubs support another statue, itself hypothesized to be a "very fat" cherub (or Buddha), atop the bell tower at the Cathedral of Saint Gorboduc (Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies; 34-6).
- The Question Box Moderator berates Annie Rugg for believing in chain letters by suggesting she also summon guardian angels with pentacles (Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies; 42).
- The Monophonic Heresy was, according to A Short Guide to Catholic Church History, a heretical belief that the Heavenly Host sings with one voice and not with many hierarchically arranged voices (Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies, 60).
Reference[]
- ↑ Wikipedia: Angel
- ↑ Wikipedia: Heavenly host
- ↑ Wikipedia: Guardian angel