Picture above is of St. Anne at St. Anthony's Church in Hawthorn, Vic.
Picture taken by Me! :)
Picture taken by Me! :)
St. Anne was the wife of St. Joachim.
They were both from the Royal House of David and had lived there lives in prayer and in good works.
After 20 years of marriage, they were childless and this was considered to be a very great misfortune among the the jews.
An angel appeared to St. Anne and St. Joachim one day after all there prayers and beseeches to God for a child; the angel told them of God's plan for them which was that they would have a child that they would name Mary, who would be the Mother of the Son of God.
St. Anne promised the angel that she would dedicate her child, Mary, to God and would teach her about him. St. Anne soon gave birth to Mary, she and St. Joachim watched Mary's every move as she grew up for her first few years in the world and then at the age of of 3, they took Mary to the temple for the very first time and they watched her pass by herself into the sanctuary and then they saw her no more.
St. Anne and St. Joachim were left childless once again, which deprived St. Anne of her true purest earthly child which was she didn't have any more. She humbly lived the rest of her life in God's faith and humbly adored the Divine Will of God, she prayed until God called her to unending rest in his heavenly home.
Even though there is little known of St. Anne's life, we should honor St. Anne because she is the Mother of Mary, she nurtured, taught, brought up Mary in this world to be a worthy Mother of God's Son, Jesus Christ. St. Anne can be an example and role model for all parents even children to show how we should be brought up in God's faith and how we should help bring up others in God's faith. We should be more like St. Anne by being a good role model to those younger than us and by also helping everyone around us.