This was not just a Catholic thing; Milton in Paradise Lost adds to this role the task of expelling Adam and Eve from Eden, though the Bible mentions only “Cherubims” (in the language of the ...
You know that I need to go away, away, away: yes, yes, I can’t go on here anymore. You know there are always the angels and the archangels, thrones, powers, cherubims, seraphims--the whole choir there ...