Statue

By the fourteenth century the cult of the Archangel Michael, which spread across Europe and mount sanctuaries, such as that at Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, had been established in a number of countries. The representation of the angel trampling the devil in the form of a dragon underfoot, with a shield in his left hand and a spear in his raised right hand, became very popular in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, and many sculptures of this type survive.