Religion: Grandmother

Good St. Anne, by all the suffering and ignominy which thou didst endure, during the 20 years that preceded thy glorious maternity, by thy love for St. Joachim, thy glorious spouse, by thy love for Mary, thy immaculate child, and by the great joy thou didst feel at the moment of her birth, I beseech thee to grant my ardent request.

So last week prayed thousands upon thousands of men, women & children throughout the Christian world, beginning a novena to St. Anne, mother of Mary, grandmother of Jesus, whose day is July 26. U....

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