<Tr> <Th> Attributes </Th> <Td> Archangel holding a bottle or flask; Archangel walking with Tobias; Archangel; young man carrying a fish; young man carrying a staff </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Patronage </Th> <Td> Apothecaries; Ordained marriage; blind people; bodily ills; diocese of Madison, WI; druggists; archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa; eye problems; guardian angels; happy meetings; insanity; lovers; mental illness; nightmares; nurses; pharmacists; physicians; archdiocese of Seattle, Washington; Aloguinsan, Cebu, Philippines; shepherds; sick people; travelers; young people </Td> </Tr> <P> Raphael (Standard Hebrew רָפָאֵל, Rāfāʾēl, "It is God who heals", "God Heals", "God, Please Heal") is an archangel of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam who in the Christian tradition performs all manners of healing . In Islam, Raphael is the fourth major angel; in the Muslim tradition, he is known as Israfil . Raphael is mentioned in the Book of Tobit, which is accepted as canonical by Catholics, Orthodox, and some Anglo - Catholics, as useful for public teaching by Anglicans and considered useful and good to read by Lutherans . Raphael is generally associated with the angel mentioned in the Gospel of John as stirring the water at the healing pool of Bethesda . Raphael is also an angel in Mormonism, as he is briefly mentioned in the Doctrine and Covenants . </P> <P> The angels mentioned in the Torah, the older books of the Hebrew Bible, are without names . Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish of Tiberias (A.D. 230--270), asserted that all the specific names for the angels were brought back by the Jews from Babylon, and modern commentators would tend to agree . </P>

Where is the angel raphael mentioned in the bible