How many guardian angels does a person have and how to find out their names

The number of guardian angels a person has is a long-standing subject of theological debate. There is a version that there is only one guardian angel, and there are other opinions on this matter. How many heavenly intercessors does a person really have? Why are these creatures needed and do they help in spiritual endeavors? And under what circumstances does a person even have a guardian?

Most Internet users are inclined to think that people have exactly two guardian angels. The Orthodox Church assures that a person cannot have more than one guardian. There are conflicting reports that some celebrities are accompanied by almost dozens of guardian angels. Let's try to find the truth together.

Guardian Angel - who is it?

Before we figure out the number of guardian angels, let's define who they are. Guardian angels are mentioned primarily in Abrahamic religious systems. Christianity is one of these religions. In general, an angel is a supernatural creature that lives in the afterlife. These creatures are invisible to people, and their name translates as “messenger.” Here are some interesting facts about guardian angels:

These creatures protect the soul and body of man.
Angels have their own hierarchy.
The greatest power of the Seraphim.
A guardian takes care of a person throughout his life.
To get your own angel, you need to go through baptism.
There are cases when a person overcame severe trials with the help of a guardian angel.

There is a rather interesting hypothesis about the appearance of guardian angels. If you believe this hypothesis, human souls that are not ready to pass through the gates of Heaven become angels. Guardian angels return to the human world, live among us and do good deeds. A relative may love you so much that after death he stays and watches over your destiny.

Preliminary conclusion: a person is allocated a personal angel who helps him cope with life’s adversities. Guardian angels are divine messengers and can communicate with you through signs and symbols. A person should not neglect angelic advice, since the guardian is easy to offend. Angels constantly take care of man and have incredible power, supported by divine intercession.

Guardian Angel in Orthodoxy - find out age and gender

Angels also have an age, and it does not change. It is also possible to find out the gender. When you wonder who protects you from life’s adversities, add up the numbers of the day and month of your own birthday. For the date August 8, the calculations are as follows:

0+8+0+8 = 16

In this example, the angel is 16 years old, but how many centuries in a row he is sixteen is unknown. But he looks his age. To find out your gender, add up all the numbers on your date of birth. In our example with the date 08/08/1996, the calculations are as follows:

0+8+0+8+1+9+9+6 = 41

We bring it to an unambiguous form:

4+1 = 5

5 is an odd number, the angel is female. When even, the angel is male. In this example, it turns out that he is a sixteen-year-old girl.

When a person has a guardian angel

There are fanatics who are confident that God provides guardian angels exclusively to adherents of their religion. In fact, every person is given a protector from birth. Religions may differ quite significantly, but God is one. Therefore, the principles of receiving guardian angels remain unchanged. The appearance of an angel is not affected by:

religion;
floor;
origin;
nationality;
level of wealth.

Every person has a guardian angel given to him upon birth.

You may not trust the guardian, you may not feel his presence, but this does not mean the absence of an angel. Religious people know that from early childhood a person begins to be helped by a heavenly intercessor. There is another fact: in infancy, our guardian angel is joined by the invisible assistant of our mother. Together, the guardians ward off terrible troubles and misfortunes from people.

Priests believe that the power of guardian angels depends on the faith of their ward. A person's lifestyle and additional prayers can also strengthen intercessors. It is customary to thank the guardian angel for his help - then he will try even harder. Remember that angels are good creatures; they cannot tolerate the evil actions of their charges. A person should avoid:

foul language;
bad thoughts;
negative emotions;
bad habits.

How to find out how many guardian angels a person has

For many centuries, religious theorists have been wrestling with the question of how many guardian angels a person can have. Opinions differ widely. The Orthodox Church believes that a person can have only one guardian angel. According to other “experts,” the maximum number of guardian angels for ordinary mortals can reach nine. Holiness increases this parameter many times over - some sources mention the number 27 (Nicholas the Pleasant). At the moment, this is a record - the largest number of heavenly intercessors assigned to an individual person.

The number of guardian angels directly affects our luck. The more patrons, the faster a person achieves his goals. Based on this theory, it can be assumed that the losers are those whom the guardian angels abandoned long ago. Sometimes angels return to the sufferers - for this to happen, you need to get back on the right path. Information flashes on the Internet about the percentage of guardian angels to the population of the planet. It turns out an interesting picture:

One intercessor - 15% of the earth's population.
Two or four angels per person - 10%.
More than five patrons - 10%.
Three guardian angels - 65% (most people).

How many invisible patrons are allocated to the most successful people? It is logical to look for such lucky ones among famous saints and defenders of the Orthodox faith. The following saints had the greatest number of guardian angels:

Seraphim of Sarov;
Nikolai Ugodnik;
Sergius of Radonezh;
Ksenia Petersburgskaya.

Please note that the inhabitants of Russian lands are most often taken under the protection of guardian angels. Do you know how many holy places there are on the planet? There are 12 of them in total, with five located in Russia. This is probably why Russian people are best provided with guardian angels. There is one good way to check if you have an angel. Religious leaders consider love to be an angelic gift. Do you have strong feelings for someone? If a person has compassion, empathy, love - this is a sure sign of angelic protection.

How to get a second angel

The number of guardian angels may change over time - up or down. This process directly depends on human actions. By doing bad things, you risk losing intercession. Sometimes it seems: I have done so many good things, but no luck has increased. Have patience, just like your guardian angel has it. Don't judge other people, strive for righteousness. Remember that angels come and go, but no one leaves their charges for longer than seven years. Here is a list of actions that need to be performed so that the number of guardian angels increases:

Check your own date of birth. If there is a seven in it, the likelihood of having a “bonus” guardian angel increases.
Save other people's lives. You can help drowning people, those caught in a fire or victims of an earthquake. The second option is love, participation, good advice. If a person is in trouble, and you are nearby and help, this can increase the chances of a second guardian angel appearing. At the same time, you should be careful - your actions should not aggravate the situation. If a “smart” recommendation harms your neighbor, the angel may leave you.
Choose your spouse wisely. Guardian angels love to help families in which harmony reigns.
Try to be attentive to your guardian angel. Pray hard, communicate with him, listen to advice. Usually communication with angels occurs in the format of internal dialogues.
Develop spiritually, trust your intuition. There are invisible threads stretched between people and guardian angels, the essence of which is very difficult to comprehend. Premonitions may well turn out to be the will of an angel.
If you successfully resist temptations, higher powers may well reward you with another guardian angel. When making a moral choice, rely on your own conscience, because a person must have spiritual aspirations.

What can famous people, our contemporaries, boast of? A number of celebrities have no shortage of angels - if you believe the media, of course. Moreover, one person sometimes has more than 9 intercessors. Here are a couple of examples:

Pierre Richard, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Bardot - 14 per person;
Alain Delon, Vanga - 12;
Gerard Depardieu - 13;
Catherine Deneuve - 9;
Valery Leontyev -15.

Let us recall that the facts stated above about guardian angels do not correspond to the spirit of Orthodoxy. In the Slavic tradition, a person can only have one protector. Orthodox believe that the main thing in an angel is strength. Another important point: no one orders the guardian angels to choose you. The heavenly host is guided by its own considerations.

Hieromonk Job (Gumerov) answers:

Some spiritual experiences, indeed, convince us that during life a person is accompanied by two Angels, one of them is a Guardian Angel. Both Angels appear at the moment of death. The disciple of St. Macarius of Alexandria (+ 395) says: “When we walked through the desert, I saw two angels who accompanied St. Macarius, one on the right side, the other on the left.” In the Life of St. Basil the New (10th century, March 26) describes the experience of undergoing the aerial ordeals of St. Theodora. She said: “When I was completely exhausted, I saw two Angels of God approaching me in the form of beautiful young men; their faces were bright, their eyes looked with love, the hair on their heads was white as snow and shone like gold; the clothes looked like the light of lightning, and on the chest they were girded crosswise with golden belts.” Saint Gregory of Tours describes an incident in the life of the 6th century Gallic bishop St. Salvia: “One day, exhausted by a strong fever, breathing heavily, he lay on his bed. And suddenly the cell, illuminated by a bright light, shook, and he, raising his hands to the mountain, gave thanks and gave up his ghost. The monks, weeping along with his mother, carry out the body of the deceased, wash it with water, dress him in a shroud, place him on a funeral bier and spend the whole night singing psalms and weeping. But when morning came and when everything was ready for the ceremonial burial, the body on the funeral stretcher began to move. And then his cheeks turned pink, the husband, awakening as if from a deep sleep, woke up, opened his eyes, raised his hands and said: “Oh, Merciful Lord, why did you make me return to this dark place of earthly abode? Your mercy in heaven would be better for me than a miserable life in this world.” To the brethren, amazed and asking what such a miracle could mean, he did not answer anything. But, having risen from the funeral bier and not feeling at all the pain from which he suffered, he spent three days without food or drink. But on the third day, calling the monks and his mother, he said: “Listen, dear brothers, and understand that what you see in this world is nothing, but, as the prophet Solomon says: “Everything is vanity.” And blessed is he who can act in the world in such a way as to be worthy to see the glory of God in heaven.” And when he said this, he began to hesitate: whether to continue or remain silent. He was silent, but, confused by the requests of the brethren that he tell about what he had seen, [finally] said: “Four days ago, when the cell shook and you saw me lifeless, two angels picked me up and lifted me high into heaven, so that it seemed to me that not only this miserable earth, but even the sun and moon, clouds and stars were under my feet. Then I was led through a gate brighter than this light into a dwelling in which the floor shone like gold and silver; the light there was inexpressible, the space indescribable. The dwelling was filled with so many people of both sexes that it was absolutely impossible to take in the crowd either in width or in length. And when the angels who walked ahead paved the way for us among the serried ranks, we reached the place that we had already contemplated from afar. Above him hung a cloud brighter than any light; neither the sun, nor the moon, nor the stars were visible there, but the cloud shone with its own brilliance much more than all these lights, and a voice came from it, “like the sound of many waters.” There, even me, a sinner, was humbly greeted by men dressed in priestly and lay clothes. As my companions told me, these were martyrs and confessors whom we here on earth deeply reverence. And when I stood where I was ordered, such a sweet aroma enveloped me and I was so satisfied with this sweetness that I still don’t want to eat or drink. And I heard a voice saying: “Let this one return to the world, for our churches need it.” And I heard a voice; I could not at all see the one who spoke” (St. Gregory of Tours. History of the Franks, VII, 1).

At the end of the 19th century in Russia there was an experience of the soul being outside the body for many hours. The author K. Ikskul also speaks about two Angels: “So, what happened next to me? The doctors left the room, both paramedics stood and talked about the vicissitudes of my illness and death, and the old nanny (nurse), turning to the icon, crossed herself and loudly expressed her usual wish to me in such cases:

- Well, the kingdom of heaven to him, eternal peace...

And as soon as she uttered these words, two Angels appeared next to me; for some reason I recognized my Guardian Angel in one of them, and the other was unknown to me” (Incredible for many, but a true incident. Ch. 17).

Why does a person need a guardian angel?

A person constantly talks about his guardian angel, but does not always realize the purpose of the divine messenger. And why did the angel need to accompany us? Let us immediately note that a bright spirit always accompanies a person, but does not always help him. In order for the guardian angel to act in full force, you need to undergo the rite of baptism. The introduction of a person to Christianity gives the angels complete freedom of action. Now you can count on:

protection from dark forces;
escorting the soul to the afterlife by an angel;
providing a person with information about upcoming disasters;
helping a person overcome trials;
miraculous rescues in disasters;
guidance on the true path.

Often patrons send us prophetic dreams, visions and signs. It is important to read these signs in a timely manner to avoid trouble. At the same time, intercessors want to see in a person the sprouts of kindness and a responsive attitude towards others. Adhere to Christian views of the world, and all misfortunes will bypass your home.