The Saint Michael Line

[GangGreen]

Anyone ever hear of this? They were having a special about this on Italian TV so I decided to Google it.

lovingit.co.uk/2009/09/the-michael-line.html
patheos.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/2009/09/michael-monasteries.html

Did I ever tell you about the Michael Line? There are five ancient monasteries dedicated to St Michael the Archangel spread across Europe. Starting from the East, Skellig Michael off the coast or Ireland, then St Michael’s Mount, off the coast of Cornwall in England. Then the greatest of them, Mont St Michel, off the coast of Normandy in France. Then in the Italian Alps, Sacra St Michele, then on the ‘heel of the boot’ in Italy, Monte Gargano, otherwise known as Monte Archangelo.
All five are in an exact geographical straight line, and if you extend the line eastward it goes through Athens to Jerusalem. I had the line checked by a satellite cartographer. Not only is the line straight, but it only varies over that vast distance by about 15 miles off the dot, and it allows for the curvature of the earth. Each of the monasteries is very ancient and all have legends of being founded and placed where they were because of visions of the Archangel Michael.

http://www.lovingit.co.uk/images/2009-09_michael-line.jpg

Make what you will about it, but I found it to be pretty cool. Whether it’s influenced by God or by sheer luck, it’s really neat.

 

[Sleepy1]

Wow dude. How interesting. Thanks for the post!

 

[ClearWater]

Thanks!

 

[Auntie_A]

Interesting. Something about this reminds me of Maximilian Kolbe recommending that they build the monastery in Nagasaki on a specific side of a hill and THAT hill was protected from the atom bomb. The monks were saved because they were protected by being on that side of the mountain.

Something about the prayerful connecting to good counsel?

 

[jaimeleglise]

Great post about the St. Michael Monasteries. Their location had to have been inspired by God.

The Nagaski monks were said to have been spared also because they were living the message of Our Lady of Fatima.