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Incredible Miracle: U.S. Marine Saved by Saint

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Saint Michael
This is the true story of a Marine wounded in Korea in 1950. Writing to his mother, he told her of a fascinating
encounter he experienced in the war. Father Walter Muldy, a U.S. Navy chaplain who spoke to the young
Marine and his mother as well as to the outfit commander, always affirmed the veracity of this narrative.
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Dear Mom,
I am writing to you from a hospital bed. Don’t worry, Mom, I am okay. I was wounded, but the doctor says that
I will be up in no time.
But that’s not what I have to tell you, Mom. Something happened to me that I don’t dare tell anyone else for
fear of their disbelief. But I have to tell you, the one person I can confide in, though even you may find it hard
to believe.
You remember the prayer to Saint Michael that you taught me to pray when I was little: “Michael, Michael of
the morning,…” Before I left home for Korea, you urged me to remember this prayer before any confrontation
with the enemy. But you really didn’t have to remind me, Mom. I have always prayed it, and when I got to
Korea, I sometimes said it a couple of times a day while marching or resting.
Saint Michael
Well, one day, we were told to move forward to scout for Commies. It was a really cold day. As I was walking
along, I perceived another fellow walking beside me, and I looked to see who it was.
He was a big fellow, a Marine about 6’4” and built proportionally. Funny, but I didn’t know him, and I thought
I knew everyone in my unit. I was glad to have the company and broke the silence between us:
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“Chilly today, isn’t it?” Then I chuckled because suddenly it seemed absurd to talk about the weather when we
were advancing to meet the enemy.
He chuckled too, softly.
“I thought I knew everyone in my outfit,” I continued, “ but I have never seen you before.”
“No,” he agreed, “I have just joined. The name is Michael.”
“Really?! That’s mine, too.”
“I know,” the Marine said, “Michael, Michael of the morning….”
Mom, I was really surprised that he knew about my prayer, but I had taught it to many of the other guys, so I
supposed that the newcomer must have picked it up from someone else. As a matter of fact, it had gotten
around to the extent that some of the fellows were calling me “Saint Michael.”
Then, out of the blue, Michael said, “There’s going to be trouble ahead.”
I wondered how he could know that. I was breathing hard from the march, and my breath hit the cold air like
dense clouds of fog. Michael seemed to be in top shape because I couldn’t see his breath at all. Just then, it
started to snow heavily, and soon it was so dense I could no longer hear or see the rest of my outfit. I got a little
scared and yelled, “Michael!” Then I felt his strong hand on my shoulder and heard his voice in my ear, “It’s
going to clear up soon.”
It did clear up, suddenly. And then, just a short distance ahead of us, like so many dreadful realities, were
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“Down, Michael!!” I yelled as I dove for cover. Even as I was hitting the ground, I looked up and saw Michael
still standing, as if paralyzed by fear, or so I thought at the time. Bullets were spurting all over the place, and
Mom, there was no way those Commies could have missed at that short distance. I jumped up to pull him
down, and then I was hit. The pain was like a hot fire in my chest, and as I fell, my head swooned and I
remember thinking, “I must be dying…” Someone was laying me down, strong arms were holding me and
laying me gently on the snow. Through the daze, I opened my eyes, and the sun seemed to blaze in my eyes.
Michael was standing still, and there was a terrible splendor in his face. Suddenly, he seemed to grow, like the
sun, the splendor increasing intensely around him like the wings of an angel. As I slipped into unconsciousness,
I saw that Michael held a sword in his hand, and it flashed like a million lights.
Later on, when I woke up, the rest of the guys came to see me with the sergeant.
Saint Michael
“How did you do it, son?” he asked me.
“Where’s Michael?” I asked in reply.
“Michael who?” The sergeant seemed puzzled.
“Michael, the big Marine walking with me, right up to the last moment. I saw him there as I fell.”
“Son,” the sergeant said gravely, “you’re the only Michael in my unit. I hand-picked all you fellows, and there’s
only one Michael. You. And son, you weren’t walking with anyone. I was watching you because you were too far
off from us, and I was worried.
Now tell me, son,” he repeated, “how did you do it?”
It was the second time he had asked me that, and I found it irritating.
“How did I do what?”
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Michael
“How did you kill those seven Commies? There wasn’t a single bullet fired from your rifle.”
“What?”
“Come on, son. They were strewn all around you, each one killed by a swordstroke.”
And that, Mom, is the end of my story. It may have been the pain, or the blazing sun, or the chilling cold. I
don’t know, Mom, but there is one thing I am sure about. It happened.
Love your son,
Michael
A Selection of Scripture with reference to
Angels.
Old Testament
Cherubim at entrance to Garden of Eden, Genesis 3:24
Appear to Abraham, Genesis 18:1-33
Saved Lot and his family, Genesis 19:1-22
Intervened with Isaac, Genesis 22:11-18

Heavenly vision of Jacob’s Ladder, Genesis 28:12
Accompanied Israel through the desert, Exodus 23:20 Numbers 20:16
Aided the prophets
Isaiah 6:2-7
Ezekiel 1:4-28
Daniel 7:9-10
Zechariah 1:9-19
New Testament references
Appeared in connection with the birth of Christ
Matthew 1:20
Luke 1:26-38
Appear to:
Paul, Actc 27:23

Peter, Acts
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Cornelius, Acts 10:3-6
Sadducees didn’t believe in Angels, Acts 23:8
12 Legions of Angels, Matthew 26:53
Mentioned by name
Raphael, Tobit 12:15
Michael, Daniel 10:13 ; Revelation 12:7
Gabriel, Daniel 8:16 ; Luke 1:19
Fall of the Angels
Deuteronomy 32:17 ; 2Peter 2:4 ; Jude 1:6 ; Revelation 12: 7-9
Angels in the Diary of St.Faustina

Asked for prayers for the dying, 820
Brought Communion for thirteen days, 1676
Can not approach with a storm because of the chaplet, 1791
Can not hear confession, 1677
Cherub guards the gate, 1271
Could envy us for Communion and suffering, 1804
Creation of, 1741
Cry Holy, Holy, Holy, 1805
Defending a dying man, 1565
During the Angelus, an understanding of God’s love, 1172
Giving Glory, 1604
Guardian, 683
Guardian, asks for prayers for dying, 314
Guardian, help against demons, 419
Guardian, prayer to, 412
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Guards at the Throne, 781

Guards with presence, 490
Heard at vow time, 1111
Helpless because of Chaplet, 474
Jesus, a brother not to Angels but man, 1584
Led to hell, 741
Love makes stronger than, 1632
Meditating on their sin, 1332
Mercy not comprehended by, 1553
Not united with, but man, 1231
Present to Sister Faustina, 471
Radiant spirits guarding churches, 630
Sang out her life, 1202
Seraph surrounded by light, 1676
Sister Faustina more pleasing than, 1489
Speaks, 470
St.Michael appears to care for Sister Faustina, 706
St.Michael fulfilled God’s will, 667
Tells of prayer needs, 828
To sing of mercy, 761
Worship in heaven, 779
Would not exchange places with, 1049
THE SAINT MICHAEL PRAYER
Can a prayer be inspired by a battle?

Pope Leo XIII (pictured at right) wrote
the Saint Michael prayer, printed below,
in 1884, after supposedly seeing a frightening vision: evil spirits, trying to fulfill Satan’s boast to destroy our
Lord’s Church within a century, were engaging in fierce attacks against it.
Although the Pontiff also saw St. Michael casting Satan (also known as the devil) and his demons back into
Hell in his vision, he was so horrified by what he had seen he felt compelled to help defend our faith in this
struggle.
In the Saint Michael prayer he throws down the gauntlet to “the father of lies” as Jesus calls the devil in John’s
Gospel (8:44), by enlisting the help of a very special Archangel:
Saint Michael the Archangel,

defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host,
by the Divine Power of God,
cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits
who wander throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
St. Michael makes a great general in this fight between Christ and Satan for our souls! After all, we read in
Revelation (12:7-9) that “there was a great battle in heaven; Michael and his angels fought with the dragon…
and that great dragon…who is called the devil and Satan, who seduces the whole world…was cast unto the
earth, and his angels [the demons] were thrown down with him.”
St. Michael’s very name (in Hebrew, Micha’el meaning “Who is like to God?”) denotes the war cry uttered in
that battle. Note that when we talk about Satan or the devil here we are also referring to his “army” of fallen
angels, the evil spirits referred to in the Saint Michael prayer.
As a special patron and protector of the Church, St. Michael has been assigned to fight against Satan; to
protect faithful souls from him, especially at their death; to champion God’s people; and, further along this
line, to escort them to their judgment.
Pope Leo XIII saw to it that the Saint Michael prayer was recited after every low Mass throughout the world.
(The low Mass, discontinued in 1970 after Vatican II, was said by a priest alone, with no music.) This prayer is
not said at Mass today, but in 1994 Pope John Paul II urged the faithful keep to reciting it.
Although we tend to downplay the notion of the devil as being too quaint or outmoded today, he does indeed
exist and not just as a symbol of evil, or as character in a fairytale to frighten us.
We obviously can’t excuse all our sins and failures by saying, as the comedian Flip Wilson did in a line he made
famous, “The devil made me do it!” After all, God allows us to be tempted but gives us the grace and the free
will to choose Him and not the devil.
Still, we shouldn’t assume the devil is just some cartoon figure. Priests such as Father Malachi Martin and
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One of Satan’s greatest assets is his camouflage, the belief that he doesn’t exist, as Father Martin once noted in
his acclaimed book Hostage to the Devil. Father Martin felt strongly that disbelief in Satan and the forces of
evil leaves us unable to resist them.
On the subject of resistance, keep in mind that we can and should say
the Saint Michael prayer at church or just on our own during the day for spiritual protection for ourselves and
for others as well!
Satan was unable to destroy the Catholic Church in the 20th century, but certainly our faith withstood terrible
onslaughts just from Hitler and Stalinalone. We are still engaged in that war that has gone for all of human
history, in one form or another, between God and the devil.
Each of us has had our own battles against the dark side trying to turn us away from eternal life with our
Creator. Satan’s idea for our eternal life is one spent with him in hatred and misery and he’s after as many
souls as he can get!
As St. Peter once noted “be sober and watch, because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion, goes about
seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8). “The evil spirits who roam about the world seeking the ruin of
souls” mentioned in the Saint Michael prayer have surely been busy, but in asking for help we can fight back
against them every day.
Prayer and the sacraments are an essential part of what St. Paul called the “armor of God” in his letter to the
Ephesians. The Saint Michael
prayer can help us indeed “stand against the deceits of the devil” (Eph 6:11) by “taking the shield of faith” (Eph
6:16). Remember,
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Let us not be afraid to ask for St. Michael’s help in this prayer. We need to remember that each time we pray
we work to defeat our real enemies, not each other, but rather the devil and his evil spirits.
As St. Paul put it, we fight “not against flesh and blood but against principalities and power, against the rulers
of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness” (Eph 6:12). With God’s help in prayer they can
all be overcome.
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Incredible Miracle: U.S. Marine Saved by Saint

“No,” he agreed, “I have just joined. The name is Michael.”

“Really?! That’s mine, too.”

“I know,” the Marine said, “Michael, Michael of the morning….”

guns were steady and pointed straight in our direction.

“How did you do it, son?” he asked me.

“Where’s Michael?” I asked in reply.

“Michael who?” The sergeant seemed puzzled.

Now tell me, son,” he repeated, “how did you do it?”

“How did I do what?”

Love your son,

A Selection of Scripture with reference to

Cherubim at entrance to Garden of Eden, Genesis 3:24

Appear to Abraham, Genesis 18:1-33

Saved Lot and his family, Genesis 19:1-22

Intervened with Isaac, Genesis 22:11-18

Heavenly vision of Jacob’s Ladder, Genesis 28:12

Accompanied Israel through the desert, Exodus 23:20 Numbers 20:16

Aided the prophets

New Testament references

Appeared in connection with the birth of Christ

Paul, Actc 27:23

Cornelius, Acts 10:3-6

Sadducees didn’t believe in Angels, Acts 23:8

12 Legions of Angels, Matthew 26:53

Raphael, Tobit 12:15

Michael, Daniel 10:13 ; Revelation 12:7

Gabriel, Daniel 8:16 ; Luke 1:19

Fall of the Angels

Deuteronomy 32:17 ; 2Peter 2:4 ; Jude 1:6 ; Revelation 12: 7-9

Angels in the Diary of St.Faustina

Guards at the Throne, 781

THE SAINT MICHAEL PRAYER

Can a prayer be inspired by a battle?

Saint Michael the Archangel,

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