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Explore myths, traditions and legendary beings grouped under Religious Traditions.
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St. Peter Of Tarentaise
St. Peter of Tarentaise, also known as Peter II of Tarentaise or Pierre de Tarentaise, was a twelfth-century French Cistercian monk and archbishop. He is remembered within the Christian tradition as a reforming churchman…
Barrattiel
Barrattiel is an obscure angelic name found mainly in later angelological and occult lists. Unlike Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, or other angels with substantial scriptural and liturgical traditions, Barrattiel has no widel…
St. Philip
Saint Philip is traditionally remembered as one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. He appears especially in the Gospel of John, where he brings Nathanael to Jesus, participates in the feeding of the multitude, and a…
Barakiel
Barakiel is an angelic name found in later Jewish, Christian and esoteric traditions, although its spelling, status and assigned duties vary considerably. The figure is especially associated with Eastern Christian angelo…
St. Philip Neri
St. Philip Neri (1515–1595) was an Italian priest, mystic and founder of the Congregation of the Oratory. Remembered as the “Apostle of Rome,” he played an important role in the Catholic renewal of the sixteenth century,…
Baradiel
Baradiel is an obscure angelic name associated, in some later angelological traditions, with hail and other forms of severe weather. Unlike Michael, Gabriel, Raphael or Uriel, Baradiel does not belong to the small group …
St. Pius V
St. Pius V was a sixteenth-century pope and Dominican friar whose pontificate helped shape the Catholic Church after the Protestant Reformation. Born Michele Ghislieri in 1504, he became Pope Pius V in 1566 and served un…
Balthioul
Balthioul is an obscure angelic name found chiefly in modern and post-medieval compilations of esoteric angelology. Unlike Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, or other angels named in Jewish and Christian scripture, Balthioul has…
St. Pius X
Saint Pius X was a Roman Catholic pope and saint who served as bishop of Rome from 1903 until his death in 1914. Born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, he came from a modest family in the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia and rose th…
Azriel
Azriel is a name associated with angels, Jewish religious tradition, and later accounts of the angel of death, but its identity is not consistent across sources. In some modern writings, Azriel is treated as a variant sp…
St. Polycarp
St. Polycarp was a second-century Christian bishop of Smyrna, an important city on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, in what is now İzmir, Turkey. He is remembered as one of the earliest Christian martyrs whose life and de…