Word: annee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inspired by this incident, Roman Catholic Author Keyes (a convert from Congregationalism in 1939) sent out a Christmas story to her friends titled Our Lord Had a Grandmother, Too. This warm, folksy meditation on the life of St. Anne, later reprinted in magazines, brought an avalanche of correspondence from Grandmother...
Most of them echoed Author Keyes's own womanly questions about the saint: "Did she hear the 'good tidings of great joy' . . . from some kindly neighbor who came back to Nazareth before Mary and Joseph? . . . Did Jesus spend much time with her in the little house where...
Triple Family. Author Keyes feels that St. Anne "seems closer to Christ than any other saint and closer to us even than the Blessed Mother." However this may be, Anne is widely and warmly venerated. She is patron saint of Brittany and of the world's second most famous...
The facts of her life are not to be found in the canonical books of the New Testament, but in the apocryphal Lost Gospels. The Golden Legend of Jacques de Voragines and other pious legends are filled with detail that Author Keyes draws on. St. Anne's birth, according...
Some time between Mary's and Christ's childhood, Joachim apparently died; Christ's grandfather is rarely mentioned. An ancient tradition, no longer supported by the church, holds that Anne had three husbands, and there are many representations of Anne with what Author Keyes calls "her triple...