Venerable Pius XII, on January 12, 1951,constituted in an apostolic letter the Archangel Gabriel the patron saint of motion pictures, radio, television, etc.
It was the Archangel Gabriel who brought to the human race the long-desired news of man's Redemption.
Pius XII, a bit of a prophet, declared him heavenly patron of "those arts by which men can employ electrical forces to transcribe words at very great speed to others at a distance [radio]; can hold converse from places widely apart [phone], send messages by wireless [telegraph, fax, e-mail], and view pictures as if they were immediate spectators, though they are in fact far away [films, movies, TV, Internet]."
Sancte Gabriel, ora pro nobis.
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