The Angel on the Stone of the Sepulchre

Saint Matthew - Chapter 28

The Angel on the Stone. J-J Tissot

[2] Et ecce terraemotus factus est magnus. Angelus enim Domini descendit de caelo : et accedens revolvit lapidem, et sedebat super eum :
And behold there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and coming, rolled back the stone, and sat upon it.

[3] erat autem aspectus ejus sicut fulgur : et vestimentum ejus sicut nix.
And his countenance was as lightning, and his raiment as snow.

From The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by J-J Tissot (1897)

Saint Matthew attributes the earthquake which took place at the Resurrection to the descent of the angel of the Lord from Heaven, and certain early commentators take this as a proof that the angel in question was Gabriel, the same messenger who had announced to Mary the coming birth of Christ.  Gabriel does, in fact, signify the power of God, and for that reason it would seem to be peculiarly appropriate that he should be associated with the Resurrection, that work of sovereign might.  Moreover, add these doctors, it was fitting that the same angel should announce to the world the two births of the Son of Man: that to life on earth and that to life on high.  There can be no doubt, they say, that many other celestial spirits were also present though invisible.

Totus tuus ego sum 

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam