The Angelic Chaplet of St. Michael

Of all the many different chaplets. this is probably the most elaborate.  It consists of nine groups of four beads each, consisting of three Ave's and one Pater in each. The nine groups are in honor of the nine choirs of angels.

The chaplet was given to a devout servant of God, Antonia d' Astonac, in an apparition by St Michael.  To all who should recite the nine salutations every day, before receiving Holy communion, he promised that an angel of each of the nine choirs would be assigned to accompany them to the Holy Table.  He also promised continual assistance during life, and after death, and the deliverance of the souls of they and their relatives from the pains of Purgatory.