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==Christian traditions==
[[File:Seven Archangels (St Michael's, Brighton).jpg|thumb|330px|Seven Archangels as given by Pseudo-Dionysius depicted in the [[stained glass]] window at [[St Michael's Church, Brighton]]. From left: [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]], [[Gabriel]], [[Uriel]], [[Camael|Chamuel]] (Camael), [[Raphael (archangel)|Raphael]], [[Jophiel]], and [[Zadkiel]].]]
The earliest specific Christian references are in the late 5th to early 6th century: [[Pseudo-Dionysius]] gives them as Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, [[Camael]], [[Jophiel]], and [[Zadkiel]].<ref>''A Dictionary of Angels, Including the Fallen Angels'' by Gustav Davidson, 1980, Free Press Publishing</ref> In the Lutheran and Roman-Rite Catholic Christian traditions, [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]], [[Gabriel]] and [[Raphael (archangel)|
Lists of characters referred to as "angels" also exist in smaller religious traditions usually regarded as [[occult]]ist or [[Superstition|superstitious]]. A reference to seven archangels appeared in an 8th or 9th-century [[talisman]] attributed to Auriolus, a "servant of God" in north-western Spain. He issues a prayer to "all you patriarchs Michael, Gabriel, Cecitiel, Uriel, Raphael, [[Haniel|Ananiel]], Marmoniel.<ref>Julia M.H. Smith, Europe After Rome: A New Cultural History 500-1000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Page 77</ref>
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