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12 devotions JULY 27-AUG. 9, 2014 or the nine days leading up to July 26, hundreds of people gather at Our Lady of Fatima Parish and its Shrine of St. Anne. The parish, at California Avenue and Pershing Road in the Brighton Park neighborhood, is home to two first-class relics of St. Anne, the mother of Mary, and has hosted novenas leading up to her July 26 feast day for 115 years. Participants can come for morning Mass and the novena service, or afternoon or evening novena services on each of the nine days. Three times during the novena period, including on the feast day, they walk in a candlelit procession through the neighborhood. Why do these pilgrims think St. Anne will answer their prayers? Wayne Smith, who participated in the 2009 novena, put it simply. “St. Anne was the grandmother of Jesus, her grandson. If a grandmother asks her grandson to do something, he will listen.”
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— Photos by Karen Callaway, Photo Editor
Left, Andres Guzman and Wenceslao Abraham lead outside of Our Lady of Fatima Parish on July 23, 201 of the novena leading up to her feast day on July 26 saint held at the shrine. The novena includes outdoor ings of the sick and of children. Above, Raquel Irvin st St. Anne with her family following Mass at Our Lady reliquary containing a relic of St. Anne during the nov
The shrine of St. Anne is located inside Our Lady of Fatima Parish, 2751 W. 38th Place. St. Anne was the mother of Mary and she is the patron of widows, pregnant women, plague victims, childles Catholics have had devotions to St. Anne for centuries. In 1991 the churches of St. Joseph, Shrine of St. Anne were consolidated with the Church of St. Agnes forming the new parish of Our Lady
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a procession carrying a statue of St. Anne, 11. The procession was part of a celebration 6. This was the 112th annual novena for the r candlelight processions and special blesstops to take a drink of water at the Shrine of of Fatima Parish. Far left, a woman holds a vena on July 26, 2013.
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Above, Redemptorist Father Tony Judge distributes medals to children after blessing them during Mass on July 20, 2014. Daniel Tobar and his son Diego watch. Left, Members of the congregation hold their hands up to bless the children during the same Mass.
Below Left, a brown street sign named in honor of St. Anne drapes over the arriving procession on its way back to church on July 23, 2011. Below right, Father Nestor Saenz, pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Parish, blesses the congregation and religious articles during the novena on July 26, 2013.
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— Photos by Karen Callaway, Photo Editor
Left, Andres Guzman and Wenceslao Abraham lead outside of Our Lady of Fatima Parish on July 23, 201 of the novena leading up to her feast day on July 26 saint held at the shrine. The novena includes outdoor ings of the sick and of children. Above, Raquel Irvin st St. Anne with her family following Mass at Our Lady reliquary containing a relic of St. Anne during the nov
The shrine of St. Anne is located inside Our Lady of Fatima Parish, 2751 W. 38th Place. St. Anne was the mother of Mary and she is the patron of widows, pregnant women, plague victims, childles Catholics have had devotions to St. Anne for centuries. In 1991 the churches of St. Joseph, Shrine of St. Anne were consolidated with the Church of St. Agnes forming the new parish of Our Lady
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a procession carrying a statue of St. Anne, 11. The procession was part of a celebration 6. This was the 112th annual novena for the r candlelight processions and special blesstops to take a drink of water at the Shrine of of Fatima Parish. Far left, a woman holds a vena on July 26, 2013.
s women, nursemaids and other careers. y of Fatima - Shrine of St. Anne.
Above, Redemptorist Father Tony Judge distributes medals to children after blessing them during Mass on July 20, 2014. Daniel Tobar and his son Diego watch. Left, Members of the congregation hold their hands up to bless the children during the same Mass.
Below Left, a brown street sign named in honor of St. Anne drapes over the arriving procession on its way back to church on July 23, 2011. Below right, Father Nestor Saenz, pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Parish, blesses the congregation and religious articles during the novena on July 26, 2013.
