The Chaplet of St Michael is a great way to honour heaven’s greatest warrior against the devil, along with the nine ranks – or ‘choirs’ – of angels. The chaplet originates in a private revelation by the Archangel Michael to Portuguese nun Antónia d’Astónaco, approved by Pope Pius IX in 1851. The archangel promised that whoever prayed the chaplet would have his assistance, and the assistance of one angel from each of the celestial choirs, when approaching Holy Communion. Those who recite the chaplet daily will also have the continual assistance of all the angels during their life and after their death. This assistance also applies to their immediate family.