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June 21 is the 172nd day of the year ... Italian saint (b. 1568) [71] ... Christian feast day: Alban of Mainz; Aloysius Gonzaga ...
The number of visitors to the Basilica of Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré is greatest on St Anne's Feast Day, 26 July, and the Sunday before Nativity of the Virgin Mary, 8 September. In 1892, Pope Leo XIII sent a relic of St Anne to the church. [18] In the Maltese language, the Milky Way galaxy is called It-Triq ta' Sant'Anna, literally "The Way of St ...
Charles Lwanga (Luganda: Kaloli Lwanga; 1 January 1860 – 3 June 1886) was a Ugandan convert to the Catholic Church who was martyred with a group of his peers and is revered as a saint by both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.
June 21. OCA - The Lives of the Saints. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 46. The Twenty-First Day of the Month of June. Orthodoxy in China. June 21. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
[1] [2] A strong devotion to Saint Anne (and by extension to Joachim) developed in the East, and a number of churches were dedicated to them. By the middle of the seventh century, a distinct feast day, the Conception of St. Anne (Maternity of Holy Anna) celebrating the conception of Mary by Saint Anne, was celebrated at the Monastery of Saint ...
The Archconfraternity briefly exhibited in St. Anne a painting of the saint it commissioned in 1603 from Caravaggio. Destined for the altar of the papal Grooms in the Basilica of Saint Peter , it was painted in 1605–1606, Madonna and Child with St. Anne .
The Amphidromia was a ceremonial feast celebrated on the fifth or seventh day after the birth of a child. It was a family festival of the Athenians, at which the newly born child was introduced into the family, and children of poorer families received its name. Children of wealthier families held a naming ceremony on the tenth day called dekate ...
Saint Anne and Mary; Greek: Η Αγία Αννα με την Παναγία, Italian: Sant'Anna e Maria: Artist: Angelos Akotantos: Year: c. 1425–1457: Medium: tempera on wood: Movement: Cretan School: Subject: The Virgin Mary held by her mother Anne: Dimensions: 106 cm × 76 cm (41.73 in × 29.9 in) Location: Benaki Museum, Athens: Owner ...