Happy Name Day!

Rosie Cookie

According to tradition, Anna, the ancestor of God, lived for sixty-nine years, and her spouse Joachim, for eighty; according to one account, Saint Joachim died two years before Saint Anna. The Theotokos had been orphaned of both her parents already when she was eleven years of age, when she was living in the Temple (see Sept. 8 and Nov. 21). Saint Anna is invoked for conceiving children, and for help in difficult childbirth.

Anna’s page here.

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4 Comments

  1. Snaggle-Tooth Jones
    Posted September 9, 2008 at 9:50 pm | Permalink

    Nogaya Lieta!!!

  2. Snaggle-Tooth Jones
    Posted September 9, 2008 at 9:51 pm | Permalink

    (P.S.: If’n ye don’t know wut that means, ask Fr. Paul.)

  3. JohnH
    Posted September 10, 2008 at 8:09 am | Permalink

    Snaggley, that must be like χρόνια πολλά… :D

  4. Snaggle-Tooth Jones
    Posted September 10, 2008 at 1:19 pm | Permalink

    Yep!

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