St Michael's Mount warheads fly over the English countryside and out to sea, passing directly over St Michael's Mount. In the 2003 film "Johnny English" it was used as the exterior of the character Pascal Sauvage's French chateau and in 2012, it was a filming location for the fantasy adventure movie "Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box". "Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michaels Mount" is the title of an experimental electronic track by musician Aphex Twin, who grew up in Cornwall and in Michael Moorcock's series of Fantasy novels about Prince Corum, a fictionalised version of St Michael's Mount appears as Moidel's Mount.
Mount Saint Michael careful records of seismic activity. Mount St. Michael soon gained international acknowledgement as an important seismographic center. At this time the 700 acre (2.8 km) farm provided all the food needed for the seminary. Jesuit brothers, farmers, tailors, bakers, cobblers, bee keepers and horticulturists, saw to the material needs of the community and the formation of the candidates placed in their charge. It was said to be one of the finest Jesuit houses of study in the world. In the 1960s the Jesuit order experienced a drastic drop in the number of vocations and Mount St. Michael closed its doors