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Today marks one of the high points of my personal calendar: the feast of Michael, Prince of Angels and weigher of souls, who presides over the turning of the year that leads from bright summer into bleak winter. He was my first girlhood crush, and later on I was thrilled by his martial prowess in Paradise Lost. Updated iconography has transformed him, unsurprisingly, into a superhero.