Deliverance & Spiritual Protection

August Queen of the Heavens

A nineteenth-century French prayer, widely circulated with ecclesiastical approval and included in Fr.

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August Queen of the Heavens, heavenly Sovereign of the angels, thou who from the beginning hast received from God the power and the mission to crush the head of Satan, we humbly beseech thee to send thy holy legions, that under thy command and by thy power they may pursue the evil spirits, encounter them on every side, resist their bold attacks, and drive them hence into the abyss of eternal woe. Who is like unto God? O good and tender Mother, thou shalt ever be our love and our hope. O divine Mother, send thy holy angels to defend us and to drive far from us the cruel enemy. Holy angels and archangels, defend us, keep us. Amen.

Traditional French prayer (19th c.); included in Fr. Chad Ripperger, Deliverance Prayers: For Use by the Laity

About the prayer

Ripperger's collection among the prayers to the Blessed Virgin. It joins two ancient themes: the promise of Genesis 3:15 that the woman's seed will crush the serpent's head, and the Marian title Queen of Angels attested in the Litany of Loreto. The central acclamation, "Who is like unto God?", is simply the meaning of the name Michael in Hebrew — the cry of the archangel in the war described in Revelation 12.

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