This laminated holy
card features a fully colored picture of Saint Michael, and a police
officer's prayer on the back of the holy card.
The Prayer reads:
“Saint Michael,
Heaven's glorious Commissioner of Police, who once so neatly and
successfully cleared God's premises of all its undesirables, look
with kindly and professional eye on your earthly force. Give us cool
heads, stout hearts, hard punches, an uncanny flair for investigation
and wise judgment. Make us the terror of burglars, the friend of
children and law-abiding citizens, kind to strangers, polite to
bores, strict with law-breakers and impervious to temptations. You
know, Saint Michael, from your own experiences with the devil that
the policeman's lot on earth is not always a happy one; but your
sense of duty that so pleased God, your hard knocks that so surprised
the devil, and your angelic self-control give us inspiration. And
when we lay our night sticks, enroll us in your Heavenly Force, where
we will be as proud to guard the throne of God as we have been to
guard the city of men. Amen.”
Printed in Italy