Visit the homepage for more information. (1) Saint Anne represented as matron, sometimes holding the child Mary, sometimes as autonomous figure or in the company of Joachim (miraculous conception); (2 ...

The feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated each year on the eighth ... in the fifth chapter and even gives a detailed conversation between Mary's mother, St. Anne and the ...

The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary ... commemorating the faith of her parents, Joachim and Anne, and the purity of Mary.

The Black Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, said to be the work of St. Luke—is housed in this sanctuary. “The first time she appeared,” Anathalie ...