The Alignment of Certain Holy Locations Forms What Some Refer To As the "Sword of Saint Michael"
A depiction found on Wikipedia of the Sword of Saint Michael. It begins in Ireland and ends in Israel at Mount Carmel, where Elijah won his showdown with the 450 priests of Ba-al and 400 prophets of Asherah over whether their gods were genuine, or the God that Elijah worshiped was the real and true God. The so called God's of Ba-al and Asherah did nothing though their priests wore themselves out for hours calling out to their phoney gods to take action. Of course the Judeo-Christian God then showed Himself to be the true power in miraculous fashion as everyone watched, and Elijah executed the false priests of the false gods with the help of the Israelites who had gathered to witness the contest. And a great three year long drought Israel had suffered through ended that day. I will post part of 1 Kings 18, which talks about this day, at the bottom of this article.
There are sites that have already done a great job of illustrating the Sword of Saint Michael, and of discussing it. I am going to provide links to some of them on this account. The interesting thing about this fairly perfect alignment of sites stretching from Ireland to Israel is that they are seven sites such as monasteries, some with churches, that are named after Saint Michael, bar just one. The thing that people can argue about is how straight of a line do they actually form. You can walk up to a globe or a map with a really fat tipped marker and connect a certain line of dots on the map or globe quite easily. But if you try to do it with finer and finer and finer tipped markers you eventually come to a point where some of the dots aren't in line with each other...unless they really are aligned perfectly. So, these locations are well aligned, but perfectly aligned? Perhaps not. Yet God MIGHT have aligned them on purpose, and aligned them well enough to make His point. Or some will contend that the "Line of St. Michael" (another of its names) could have happened by chance.
Many of the monasteries were built before there were great and accurate world maps, yet they do a wonderful job of pointing from Ireland to Israel in a near straight line, which seems to have been accidental...unintended by the people locating the monasteries...and again, six of the seven are named after the mighty war angel of God: the archangel named Michael! He is the Angel who battles Satan for the body of Moses, for instance. Some Christ-believing denominations, not too many, claim that Michael is who Jesus was before He came to Earth and was born as God's Son in the flesh of a man, and who then walked among us. But I am not one who is fully convinced of what Michael's full nature is, though he is a highly respected and very powerful and honored being who answers loyally to the Father Almighty. There is never any hint that Michael tries to be something greater than he is, yet he is certainly someone very great in Heaven. Those who do believe Michael is Jesus have certain strong points that they make using scripture. Some people point to Jude 9 as proof that Michael was a created being, one of the archangels but a very powerful one. I do not wish to get into that discussion though. I just wished to suggest that you might find the geographical alignment of these seven monasteries to be quite a lot to ask of chance, and also might think it interesting to explore the phenomena a bit.
https://americaneedsfatima.org/articles/the-sword-of-saint-michael
Elijah on Mount Carmel
16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah. 17 When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”
18 “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father’s family have. You have abandoned the Lord’s commands and have followed the Baals. 19 Now summon the people from all over Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel. And bring the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
20 So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. 21 Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.”
But the people said nothing.
22 Then Elijah said to them, “I am the only one of the Lord’s prophets left, but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets. 23 Get two bulls for us. Let Baal’s prophets choose one for themselves, and let them cut it into pieces and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. I will prepare the other bull and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. 24 Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord. The god who answers by fire—he is God.”
Then all the people said, “What you say is good.”
25 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one of the bulls and prepare it first, since there are so many of you. Call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire.” 26 So they took the bull given them and prepared it.
Then they called on the name of Baal from morning till noon. “Baal, answer us!” they shouted. But there was no response; no one answered. And they danced around the altar they had made.
27 At noon Elijah began to taunt them. “Shout louder!” he said. “Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened.” 28 So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until their blood flowed. 29 Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention.
30 Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come here to me.” They came to him, and he repaired the altar of the Lord, which had been torn down. 31 Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Your name shall be Israel.” 32 With the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord, and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs[a] of seed. 33 He arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces and laid it on the wood. Then he said to them, “Fill four large jars with water and pour it on the offering and on the wood.”
34 “Do it again,” he said, and they did it again.
“Do it a third time,” he ordered, and they did it the third time. 35 The water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.
36 At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: “Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. 37 Answer me, Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, Lord, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.”
38 Then the fire of the Lord fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.
39 When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, “The Lord—he is God! The Lord—he is God!”
40 Then Elijah commanded them, “Seize the prophets of Baal. Don’t let anyone get away!” They seized them, and Elijah had them brought down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered there.
41 And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.” 42 So Ahab went off to eat and drink, but Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees.
43 “Go and look toward the sea,” he told his servant. And he went up and looked.
“There is nothing there,” he said.
Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”
44 The seventh time the servant reported, “A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.”
So Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”
45 Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain started falling and Ahab rode off to Jezreel. 46 The power of the Lord came on Elijah and, tucking his cloak into his belt, he ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.