Angel ( mythology ) Angels , according to the mythology of many species , were spiritual beings that served God as his messengers . Popular Earth depictions of angels often presented them as beautiful human s with halos and / or wings , not unlike Solonian s in their " evolved form " ( TV : " The Mutants " ) , Light ( TV : " Ghost Light " ) and the Weeping Angel s . ( TV : " Blink " ) Members of the Heavenly Host , robot s designed by Max Capricorn , resembled angels by deliberate design . ( TV : " Voyage of the Damned " ) References . When Christian missionaries failed to exorcise Saul from Cheldon Bonniface , they built a church on the site , then declared him an angel . ( PROSE : " " ) In 325 , Arius and Clement came to suspect that Erimem was an angel when they witnessed the TARDIS dematerialise . ( AUDIO : " The Council of Nicaea " ) By 1055 , Sebastian Grayle believed that the Nimon were angels . ( AUDIO : " Seasons of Fear " ) In 1240 , the people of Kiev believed that an alien soldier buried in the catacombs was a dark angel . ( PROSE : " Bunker Soldiers " ) In 1553 , when Mistress Ellen and Queen Jane Grey witnessed Rani Chandra return to her own time via a time window , Ellen believed it to be witch craft , but Jane believed Rani to have been an angel . ( TV : " Lost in Time " ) In 1609 , Cardinal Robert Bellarmine mediated the Armageddon Convention while believing that he was intervening in a war between angels . ( PROSE : " The Empire of Glass " ) In 1669 , Father Chadwick Vita thought that the Healer was an angel . ( COMIC : " Black Death White Life " ) In 1702 , Major Billy Lovemore claimed he was an angel of retribution before shooting Ned Cotton . ( AUDIO : " Phantasmagoria " ) In 1759 , Madame de Pompadour called the Tenth Doctor " my lonely angel " . ( TV : " The Girl in the Fireplace " ) In 1869 , Gwyneth believed that the Gelth were angels . ( TV : " The Unquiet Dead " ) In 1914 , soldiers fighting in World War I in Belgium came to believe that a Warfreek surveillance device was the Angel of Death come to take the dead to Heaven . Later , Rose Tyler posed as an angel to put a stop to a battle . ( COMIC : " Warfreekz ! " ) In 1930 , a New York City showgirl named Tallulah performed " My Angel Put the Devil in Me " dressed as an angel , while the supporting dancers were dressed like devils . ( TV : " Daleks in Manhattan " ) In 1953 , Father Hemmings believed that the aliens he had found washed up on a beach were angels . ( PROSE : " The Canvey Angels " ) Chad Boyle believed that the Timewyrm was an angel . ( PROSE : " " ) In 1997 , Gabriel and Jude of the Rapture claimed to be angels . ( AUDIO : " The Rapture " ) In 2007 , a viewer of " Ghostwatch " believed that the Cybermen , who appeared all over the world , were angels . ( WC : " Ghostwatch " ) In 2009 , Peter Dalton believed that the Trickster was an angel . ( TV : " The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith " ) In 2009 , Oliver Harrington believed that the glow that the people the neutron eater consumed emitted meant they were turning into angels . ( AUDIO : " Lost Souls " ) When the Enochai attacked Greenwich in 2009 they had the appearance of clockwork angels . ( COMIC : " Don ' t Step on the Grass " ) In his Miracle Day speech in 2011 , Oswald Danes claimed that humanity had evolved into angels . ( TV : " The Categories of Life " ) When ! C - Mel became Clarence , he took on the appearance of an angel . ( PROSE : " Ghost Devices " ) The Morphiean s had the ability to animate stone statues of angels . ( PROSE : " Ten Little Aliens " )