Devotion to Saint Anne, honored as the holy mother of Mary and grandmother of Jesus, was popular among early Christians. ABOVE: Charles-Antoine Coypel, “The Education of the Virgin Mary,” c ...

Every year on the feast of the Virgin Mary’s mother, thousands of faithful flock toward the shrine of Saint-Anne d’Auray, the third major shrine in France, after Lourdes and Lisieux.

After more than three centuries, St. Anne’s Episcopal Church ... Established in 1692 in Colonial Annapolis, the church is said to have been named in honor of the mother of the Virgin Mary, St. Anne.

At the time of Hole’s bequest, his collection was highly regarded. In 1935, The Times featured his “Virgin and Child With Saint Anne” in a Sunday series on “Southern California’s One ...

Napoleon Pelletier, a French Canadian, led the founding of St. Anne Shrine in the 1920s, ... France, where a girl claimed to have 18 visits from the Virgin Mary in a cave in 1858.

The legend of St. Anne’s well This particular well is also associated with what was the nearby Sutton Priory, which had 12 monks. But the priory was abandoned after Henry VIII’s draconian ...

Recalling Canada's devotion to St. Anne de Beaupre, they chose to build a shrine to St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary, at their winter retreat on State Road 60, six miles east of Lake Wales.

PICO BLVD — A century of tradition is currently on display at St. Anne's Church and Shrine. For 102 years, the congregation has celebrated the Novena, a multi-day celebration honoring the church ...