跑馬地天主教聖彌額爾墳場（St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery (Happy Valley)），俗稱跑馬地天主教墳場，是香港歷史最悠久的天主教墳場，位於香港島跑馬地黃泥涌道近麗都酒店一帶，內有2萬多個墳墓。墳場的地皮是1842年由香港政府租給天主教香港教區作墳場之用，以每年1港元租用999年。
聖彌額爾(St. Michael),是一個在啟示錄裡第12章第7節所提起的天使長，但以理書則描寫祂是以色列的守護神。在猶大書第9節裡，彌額爾曾和撒旦為了摩西的屍體而爭辯。
Christian tradition gives to St. Michael four offices:
-To fight against Satan.
-To rescue the souls of the faithful from the power of the enemy, especially at the hour of death.
-To be the champion of God's people, the Jews in the Old Law, the Christians in the New Testament; therefore he was the patron of the Church, and of the orders of knights during the Middle Ages.
-To call away from earth and bring men's souls to judgment ("signifer S. Michael repraesentet eas in lucam sanctam", Offert. Miss Defunct. "Constituit eum principem super animas suscipiendas", Antiph. off. Cf. "Hermas", Pastor, I, 3, Simil. VIII, 3).
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