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Patron of travellers, pilgrims, migrants and anyone leaving home young. Above all Córdoba, which swore itself to his custody after a reported apparition during plague and put triumphal columns to him across the city. Plus the San Rafaels scattered over several continents, though not all of them are named for the angel.

Part of Saint Raphael

38 moments in this segment.

1. 1877 - Oriana Day: Mission San Rafael. A 19th-century painting by Oriana Day of Mission San Rafael Arcangel as it stood in the mission era, painted 1877.
2. 1900 - Mission San Rafael Archangel, c. 1900. A painting of Mission San Rafael Arcangel dating to about 1900, California Historical Society.
3. 1990 - Cordoba facade with San Rafael, 1990. A Cordoban house facade carrying an image of San Rafael, photographed in 1990. Accepted at 673 px as dated documentary material.
4. 2010-01-01 - Triunfo de San Rafael, Puerta del Puente. The Puerta del Puente Triunfo, the most prominent of Cordoba's columns to its patron archangel. Photograph taken 2010.
5. 2011-01-01 - Triunfo de San Rafael at the San Rafael Bridge. The Triunfo column at the San Rafael bridge in Cordoba. Photograph taken 2011.
6. 2012-01-01 - Torre de Santo Domingo de Silos and Triunfo de San Rafael. A Cordoban street view with the tower of Santo Domingo de Silos and a Triunfo de San Rafael. Photograph taken 2012.
7. 2012-01-01 - Archangel Raphael in the treasury of the Cordoba Mosque-Cathedral. A figure of San Rafael, patron of Cordoba, in the treasury of the Mosque-Cathedral. Photograph taken 2012.
8. 2012-01-01 - Plaza San Rafael Arcangel. A public square dedicated to San Rafael Arcangel, with its statue of the archangel. Photograph taken 2012.
9. 2012-01-01 - Triunfo de San Rafael at the Roman Bridge, Cordoba. The Triunfo de San Rafael standing at the foot of the Roman Bridge over the Guadalquivir in Cordoba. Photograph taken 2012.
10. 2013-01-01 - Triunfo de San Rafael and the Puerta del Puente. The Triunfo column with the Puerta del Puente behind it in Cordoba, Spain. Photograph taken 2013.
11. 2013-01-01 - Plaza de la Fuenseca with the Triunfo de San Rafael, Cordoba. The Fuenseca square in Cordoba, Spain, with its Triunfo column crowned by the Archangel Raphael, the city's custodio. Photograph taken 2013 of the 18th-century monument.
12. 2013-01-01 - Triunfo de San Rafael, Glorieta del Conde de Guadalhorce. Another of Cordoba's Triunfos de San Rafael, in the Glorieta del Conde de Guadalhorce. Photograph taken 2013.
13. 2013-01-01 - Mission San Rafael Arcangel, California. The mission church of San Rafael Arcangel in San Rafael, California, founded 1817 as a hospital mission. Photograph taken 2013 of the present (rebuilt) church.
14. 2013-10-01 - Mission City: The Streets of San Rafael. Documentary on San Rafael, California, its landmarks and its origins around the 1817 mission of San Rafael Arcángel.
15. 2014-05-20 - I-Witness: The Church of San Rafael, Bulacan. Full documentary episode from Philippine national broadcaster GMA on the historic church of San Rafael, Bulacan, a town founded in 1750 whose founding legend involves a healing with fish liver echoing the Book of Tobit.
16. 2014-05-20 - Inside the Historic San Rafael Church, Bulacan. GMA investigative segment on the eighteenth-century church of San Rafael and its links to Philippine literary history.
17. 2017-01-01 - Statue over the portal, Chiesa dell'Angelo Raffaele, Venice. The sculpture of Raphael and Tobias above the door of the church of the Angelo Raffaele in Dorsoduro, Venice. Modern photograph (2017) of the historic church.
18. 2017-01-01 - Apse relief, Chiesa dell'Angelo Raffaele, Venice. A relief in the apse of the church of the Angelo Raffaele in Venice, one of the city's few churches dedicated to the archangel. Photograph taken 2017.
19. 2018-10-23 - Córdoba's Chronicler on the History and Devotion of Saint Raphael. Interview with Julián Hurtado de Molina, official chronicler of Córdoba, on the historical roots of the city's devotion to the archangel. Spanish local television.
20. 2019-01-01 - Triumph of the Archangel Raphael, Cordoba. A Triunfo de San Rafael in Cordoba. Photograph taken 2019 of the historic monument.
21. 2020-12-29 - Botticini's 'Tobias and the Archangel Raphael' Explained. Museum talk from the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo on Francesco Botticini's fifteenth-century painting of the boy and his angel at journey's end, the defining image of the protected journey.
22. 2021-01-01 - Triunfo de San Rafael, Cordoba. A Cordoban Triunfo column to the Archangel Raphael, the city's custodio. Photograph taken 2021.
23. 2022-10-05 - A Pilgrimage to Córdoba with the Archangel Raphael. Guided spiritual pilgrimage to Córdoba, Spain, covering the archangel's role as the city's protector and the sites of his devotion; part of a three-part series on the archangel saints.
24. 2023-01-01 - Triunfo de San Rafael, Plaza de la Compania. A second Cordoban Triunfo column to Saint Raphael, in the Plaza de la Compania. Photograph taken 2023.
25. 2023-01-01 - Triunfo de San Rafael, Plaza del Triunfo, Cordoba. The great baroque Triunfo column crowned by the Archangel Raphael beside the Puerta del Puente in Cordoba, Spain. Photograph taken 2023 of the 18th-century monument.
26. 2023-01-15 - Fréjus and Saint-Raphaël: The Riviera Town Named for the Archangel. French travel documentary visiting Saint-Raphaël on the Côte d'Azur, the coastal town that carries the archangel's name.
27. 2023-09-27 - San Rafael, California: The City with a Mission. Civic profile of the northern Californian city that grew around the mission dedicated to the archangel.
28. 2023-11-04 - The History of San Rafael, Bulacan. Tagalog local-history piece on the origins of the Philippine town named for the archangel.
29. 2024-05-04 - Procession of Saint Raphael, Custodian of Córdoba, 2024. Full recording of the Córdoba procession of the archangel on 4 May 2024, documenting current civic and religious practice.
30. 2025-04-17 - Savoldo's 'Tobias and the Angel' at the Borghese Gallery. Museum piece on Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo's Renaissance painting of Raphael accompanying Tobias, held in the Galleria Borghese, Rome.
31. 2025-05-13 - The Custodian in Procession Through Córdoba, May 2025. Footage of the archangel's image leaving the Iglesia del Juramento on 10 May 2025 and passing along Calle Virgen de Villaviciosa.
32. 2025-06-23 - Tobias and the Angel, After Verrocchio. Short gallery piece on the Verrocchio-workshop image of Tobias walking beside Raphael with the fish, the archetype of the guarded journey.
33. 2025-10-27 - Walking the Triunfos de San Rafael, Córdoba. Spanish urban-heritage programme touring the votive Triunfo columns raised to Saint Raphael across Córdoba, broadcast around the 24 October feast.
34. 2026-03-15 - Restoring the Triunfo de San Rafael, 1985-1987. Archive footage from a 1987 Córdoba municipal television programme documenting the restoration of the Triunfo column at the Puerta del Puente.
35. 2026-05-12 - The Oath of Córdoba: Saint Raphael as Custodian of the City. Spanish local-history programme tracing the archangel from the Book of Tobit to the 1578 apparition reported to Father Andrés de las Roelas and the civic Oath that made Raphael Córdoba's Custodio.
36. 2026-06-10 - Presenting the Restored Pedestal of San Rafael, Córdoba. Full event recording of the June 2026 presentation of the restored pedestal of the archangel's image in Córdoba's Iglesia del Juramento.
37. 2026-06-11 - Saint Raphael Returns to His Altar After Restoration. Report on the restored altar plinth of San Rafael Custodio in Córdoba's Iglesia del Juramento, explained by Fernando Cruz Conde.
38. 2026-07-30 - Why Saint Raphael Matters So Much to Córdoba. Spanish explainer on the origin of Córdoba's devotion to Raphael and the Triunfo columns scattered across the city.