<P> Guardian angels appear in literary works of the medieval and Renaissance periods . Later the Anglican English physician and philosopher Sir Thomas Browne (1605--82), stated his belief in Religio Medici (part 1, paragraph 33): </P> <P> Therefore for Spirits I am so farre from denying their existence, that I could easily beleeve, that not onely whole Countries, but particular persons have their Tutelary, and Guardian Angels: It is not a new opinion of the Church of Rome, but an old one of Pythagoras and Plato; there is no heresie in it, and if not manifestly defin'd in Scripture, yet is it an opinion of a good and wholesome use in the course and actions of a mans life, and would serve as an Hypothesis to salve many doubts, whereof common Philosophy affordeth no solution: </P> <P> By the 19th century, the guardian angel was no longer viewed in Anglophone lands as an intercessory figure, but rather as a force protecting the believer from performing sin . A parody appears in Byron's Don Juan: "Her guardian angel had given up his garrison" (Canto I, xvii). </P> <P> Clarence Odbody, the guardian angel in the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life, "earned his wings" through bringing awareness that life was worth living to the film's protagonist, George Bailey . </P>

Who is the patron saint of guardian angels