St. Gabriel the Archangel, pray for me!

Tonight I made an interesting discovery while doing research for my thesis. In 1951, Pope Pius XII declared that St. Gabriel the Archangel, "who brought to the human race the long-desired news of man's Redemption," (see the image above where Gabriel tells Mary all about her role in God's plan) to be the patron saint "of those arts by which men can employ electrical forces to transcribe words at very great speed to others at a distance, can hold converse from places widely apart, send messages by wireless, and view pictures of objects and events brought before them as if they were immediate spectators, though they are, in fact, far away."

These quotations were from a later document by Pope Pius XII, entitled Miranda Prorsus. I found the Holy Father's description of electronic communications to be humorous. But I was happy to see I have a patron saint for my thesis project, which I have been working on for quite some time without a great deal of progress. The thesis is all about our use of "modern means of communication," of which, apparently, St. Gabriel is the patron.

So, St. Gabriel, help me out here!

-Jason

P.S.: The image above is a depiction of "The Annunciation" by Botticelli. It was painted in 1490 and is now housed at the Uffizi gallery in Florence, Italy. The digital image was taken from Wikipedia and is public domain.