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St. Anne

Feast 26 July

Mother of the Blessed Virgin. Grandmother of the Lord.

St. Anne

Sacred art

Statues and images

The portrait kept with St. Anne is the image this library has of Anne. The honour goes to the person, and through the person to God. It is not a machine, and it is not a substitute for the life written below.

The whole treasury

Not named in the Gospels. Named in the Church’s memory and in the Protoevangelium of James. Patroness of mothers, of miners, of Brittany and of Quebec.

Pray with Anne

The prayers

Signs that name Anne

If it belongs to Anne, it is here, with a door back into the story.

Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré — Beaupré, Québec
HealingLong veneration

Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré

Beaupré, Québec1658 – present

Canada’s oldest pilgrimage. A workman with a crippled back is said to have been healed as he laid the first stones of a chapel to St. Anne. The basilica’s pillars of crutches are the Canadian cousin of Lourdes.