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Archangel Michael has his special church festival while Christmas angel ornaments; figurines, pictures and guardian angels jewelry are classic Christmas gifts and party favors. Angel pictures grace many Christmas cards in which they are shown hovering over Christmas nativity stable. Angels have been popular subject of Christmas music throughout the world and medieval dramas frequently depicted Nativity angels. Both classic and modern movies show angels as an intervener in the lives of the movie characters. Thus, they catch the fancy of the little kids who dress up in white angel robes as Christmas angels for seasonal holiday dramas. In Europe, angels are a part of groups of boys who go from door to door singing Christmas carols and songs and getting treats in return.
Angels are believed to keep record of children who have been naughty or nice throughout the year and bring gifts for the good ones. According to an Irish folklore, Virgin Mary sends angels each Christmas Eve to wake up children and lead them to heaven to sing a carol to the Christ Child. Children return to their beds before morning and chosen children are considered lucky. In Latin America and the Philippines, people dress up as angels and take out street processions reenacting the journey to Bethlehem. Heavenly angel figurines are parts of popular home decorations while angel ornaments are often used to decorate Christmas trees and gifts. Gold and silver guardian angel jewelry are said to remind us of the fact that an angel is watching and safeguarding us.
