# Father Michael — Travel Essays character guide

> Father Michael in Travel Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** The Monks Father Michael, Father

**First appearance:** 0047-our-lady-of-the-snows

## Who they are

A monk at the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of the Snows.

## Relationships

### [The Priest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/characters/the_priest)

_professional_

Father Michael and The Priest are fellow clergy, working together in religious duties.

### [The Priest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/characters/the_priest)

_professional_

Father Michael and The Priest are fellow clergy, working together in religious duties.

## In the story

### [Our Lady of the Snows](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/our-lady-of-the-snows)

The Father Hospitaller, a pleasant and gracious man of about thirty-five, who receives the narrator and gives him a glass of liqueur.

### [Father Apollinaris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/father-apollinaris)

The Father Hospitaller who comes to the gate to speak with the narrator.

### [The Monks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/the-monks)

A pleasant, fresh-faced, smiling man of about thirty-five who gives the narrator a glass of liqueur and listens indulgently to his talk.

### [The Boarders](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/the-boarders)

The good Irish deacon who tolerantly pats the narrator on the shoulder and says, 'You must be a Catholic and come to heaven.'

## Links

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