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Icon of St. Anne, Angelos Akotanos, scan from "A Guide to the Benaki Museum," by Angelos Delivorrias, public domain.
March 21, 2020
Catholic San FranciscoFather Dan Nascimento began his broadcast Mass this morning, as he will do every Saturday morning, with devotion prayers to St. Anne – “bringing to her our worries and fears, so she may bring them to her grandson Jesus to intercede for us.”
A screenshot of Father Dan Nascimento, pastor of St. Anne of the Sunset Parish in San Francisco, praying before his Saturday morning broadcast Mass for the intercession of St. Anne for those affected by the coronavirus pandemic, March 21, 2020.
At the close of the prayers, Father Nascimento, pastor of St. Anne of the Sunset Parish in San Francisco, lifted a monstrance holding a relic of the saint and asked for her intercession for families, for the vulnerable, for those in the healing profession and for those who care for the weak.
“May this grandmother of Jesus reach over you and intercede as she interceded for her own family,” he said.
St. Anne was the mother of Mary and the maternal grandmother of Jesus,
according to apocryphal Christian and Islamic tradition.