From Angels The story of the Archangel Raphael is told in the book of Tobit. The book tells the story of a man called Tobit who is an Israelite of the tribe of Naphtali, but who lives in exile. He is an upright man and risks his life to give a proper burial to bodies of Israelites who have been killed. One evening, because it is so hot, he sleeps outside with his face uncovered and is blinded by sparrows’ droppings falling into his eyes. I went to the physicians to be healed but the more they treated me with ointments the more my vision was obscured by the white films, until I became completely blind. Meanwhile, in a town some distance away, a relative called Sarah is afflicted by a demon. She had been married to seven husbands, and the wicked demon Asmodeus had killed each of them before they had been with her. Tobit and Sarah both pray, and God sends an angel to help them. Tobit’s son Tobias sets off, as he thinks, to collect some money from a distant relative, but he is destined to meet Sarah and fall in love and marry her. The angel, Raphael, accompanies Tobias in the guise of a fellow traveler. [...]![]()
