Saint Michael in the Catholic Church Lord kindly bless this incense and accept it as a savour of sweetness). Until Pope John XXIII revised it in 1960, the General Roman Calendar had not one but two feasts of Saint Michael, one on 29 September, the other on 8 May. Michael the Archangel is the patron saint of grocers, mariners, paratroopers, police officers, and military members. A large number of Roman Catholic churches around the globe are dedicated to Saint Michael, from Hammerfest, Norway to Oeste Catarinense in Brazil. Saint Michael's feast day of September 29 has been solemnly celebrated in many locations since the fifth century.
Vitamin Cottage Natural Grocers Vitamin Cottage Natural Grocers Vitamin Cottage Natural Food Markets, Inc () (commonly referred to as "Vitamin Cottage" or "Natural Grocers") is a Colorado based health food chain. The business was founded in 1955 as a door-to-door sales operation by Margaret and Philip Isely. They opened the first Vitamin Cottage store in Lakewood, Colorado in 1963. After Margaret Isely's death in 1997, the Iselys' children took over the business the following year. Beginning in 2008, Vitamin Cottage Natural Grocers phased in a name change to Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, to emphasize that groceries, rather than nutritional supplements, formed a majority