Miracle of St Michael on a man freed from an evil spirit (Ḥamle)

The miracle of the glorious angel Michael, chief of the angels, who is cast down in the fire of a single furnace, whose high place is the edge of the sanctuary, whose lips are of fire, from whose mouth flame issues, whose face is lightning, whose garment is thunder, who holds the sword of the Trinity in his hand, with which he smites the ranks of the demons of Belhor, his evil spirits. And for us, for all of us, the children of baptism, who believe in his power, he will have mercy on us before him, and he will give us life with his angels, and he will awaken us every morning, and he will bless us, spreading his hand, and he will shelter us under the wing of his power, so that he may deliver us from the enemy, his adversary, and he will protect us with the shadow of his wing, so that we may be saved forever from his evils, from now until the last breath, and in all times and years, and again and again, for the writer of his miracles, he will protect him with the shadow of his wing forever and ever. Amen.

It was said: There was a certain Christian man, and it was in a certain city, on the day of the feast of the glorious angel Michael, chief of the angels, while there was a father bishop with priests and deacons in the church at the time of the Eucharist, and the multitude of people standing outside the church in the open air at the time of the liturgy, awaiting the Eucharist. While they were thus according to the custom of the law of tradition, when the time came for the reading of the Gospel of the kingdom of the only Son, then a man in whom was an unclean spirit, who had been dwelling in a pit, while being tormented with suffering and a strange disease, many evil demons, entered the church while they were thus. And all the people were looking at him, crying out and shouting in a loud voice, while he said: "Behold, you have driven me out and expelled me from my dwelling, and I have been wandering until now with all my sinful companions, fleeing from you. O chief of the angels, where shall I dwell away from your spirit, and where shall I hide from before your face? There is no place where we can escape from your hand. Behold, you have driven us from every place under heaven and earth, to where your name is heard, and where your commemoration is performed, and where your sanctuary and your church are built. In all places we have sinned, but especially in these." And while he was saying this in a loud voice, that unclean spirit was before the assembly of the church.

And for us, all of us who have believed in his prayer and the supplication of his mouth, in his greatness he will save us from Satan and from his demons, and he will heal us from the sickness of our soul and our body, and he will place upon our wound the healing balm of his holiness, so that we may live by his grace, and he will increase mercy upon us with all of them, his wings, the heads of fire, the cherubim, the lightning of praise, who flutter, who fan upon us the dew of mercy, which is full of height from the merciful one, the pure one of high place, whose beginning of his being is unknown, whose existence is hidden, and he does not remove us from his mercy. And moreover, for the one who reads his miracles, may the help of his greatness be for him, and may he shade him with his wings forever and ever. Amen. After his miracle of Michael, the unique one, his free one, the high one of his rank, the one full of burning coal of fire, who spews fire from his mouth. And moreover, may he protect his beloved, the son of God, and with Gabra Ḥeywat, his scribe, forever and ever. Amen. And there was a certain Christian man, at the time of the feast of Michael, chief of the angels. And while there was a bishop with priests and deacons in the church at the hour of the Eucharist, whose beginning of his being is unknown, whose existence is hidden, and he does not remove us from his mercy, forever and ever. Amen and amen.

His miracles. For the holy Michael, the archangel, his greatness and wonder occurred on one day, when the feast of Michael was being celebrated, while a bishop was with the people in the sanctuary, and they were performing the liturgy of the church according to the customary law.