George Monk's Vision of Angels in the Salt Lake Temple
Published October 12, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Contributed by
Millennial Star Research
Eleven-year-old George Monk, while attending the Salt Lake Temple dedication with his mother and grandmother, witnessed several angels appearing near the windows and above the canopy of the Melchizedek stand. He described them as wearing flowing white robes and pointed out their positions to his mother, who could not see them.
Fuller account of this event (as retold in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 58, No. 13 (March 26, 1896), p. 203):
A little boy, George Monk, eleven years of age, who was present at the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple, with his mother and grandmother, relates that he saw a man appear at the south-east circular window of the Assembly hall of the Temple. This personage looked into the interior. The boy drew his mother’s attention to this visitor but she could not see him. Suddenly he requested her to look at two others flying or floating across the upper part of the room from south to north, and then stated that five others had entered a large compartment ledge which ran along the wall under the row of circular windows. He described them as wearing flowing white robes. The boy was very earnest in his statements, and his mother, who is a lady of intelligence and truthfulness, says she has no doubt that her son saw what he described, although she was not permitted to see the heavenly visitors herself.
In Their Own Words
“He said he saw a man appear at the south-east circular window of the Assembly hall of the Temple. This personage looked into the interior. The boy drew his mother’s attention to this visitor but she could not see him. Suddenly he requested her to look at two others flying or floating across the upper part of the room from south to north, and then stated that five others had entered a large compartment ledge which ran along the wall under the row of circular windows. — Millennial Star 58:13”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 26 March 1896 (Vol. 58, No. 13). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1896-03-26_58_13 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Fuller account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 58, No. 13 (March 26, 1896), p. 203 https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1896-03-26_58_13
Related Miracles
Similar miracle types and stories from the 1890s.
Miracle of the Week
One remarkable, documented account in your inbox every Monday, drawn from the full archive.
