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A Prayer to the Good Saint Anne: A Novena
Good Saint Anne is especially invoked as Patroness of Mothers, Comfortress of the Sorrowing, Mother of the Poor, Health of the Sick, Patroness of the Childless, Help of the Pregnant, Model of Married Women and Mothers, Protectress of Widows and Patroness of Laborers.
Simplicity is the secret by which we gain Good St. Anne's love, her intercession, and her protection. So widespread is her popularity that there are countless churches dedicated to Saint Anne all over the world. History: All we know of the live of Good Saint Anne and her husband Joachim came from literature called The Proto-Gospel of James, the earliest form of which were thought to have been written in 150 AD, and considered apocryphal by the Church.
Tradition also has it after her death Good Saint Anne’s body was brought from the Holy Land to Constantinople and was kept there in the church of St. Sophia.
One tradition also says that the body of Good Saint Anne was brought to Apt in southern France by St. Lazarus, the friend of Christ, was hidden by St. Auspicius (d. 398), and found again during the reign of Charlemagne. Another tradition recalls Saint Mary Magdalene and her companions bringing the body of St. Anne to France 50 years after her death.
Needless to say these traditions are fraught with uncertainty.
But one thing for certain, Good Saint Anne has proved herself a heavenly helper in every need.
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