Shrines of St. Anne, Grandmother of Jesus

American Catholic History

Noelle & Tom Crowe

History, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

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🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Shrines dedicated in honor of St. Anne are among the oldest Catholic establishments in the U.S. St Anne de Detroit, for instance, is the second-oldest parish in the United States, while the shrine on Isle la Motte, Vermont, was part of a French fort protecting the southern approaches to Montreal. Some shrines have dramatic stories, like the National Shrine of St. Anne in Scranton, Pennsylvania which nearly collapsed due to mining activity in the hill beneath it. Most have a relic of St. Anne, the grandmother of Jesus. The Shrine of St. Anne in Fall River, Massachusetts was built to rival the great shrine of St. Anne de Beaupre in Quebec, but demographic changes brought that awe-inspiring structure nearly to the point of demolition. These shrines often arose where French and French Canadians settled, as the French have historically had a deep devotion to the mother of Mary and grandmother of Jesus. Image credits: St. Anne de Detroit, creative commons license, Polonia90; St. Anne's Church and Parish Complex, Fall River, Massachusetts, creative commons license, Kenneth C. Zirkel

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to American Catholic History brought to you by the support of listeners like you.
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0:23.5	and a great review, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:27.0	I'm Noelle Heister Crow.
0:28.2	And I'm Tom Crow.
0:29.2	Today we're talking about some historic shrines dedicated to St. Anne, the mother of Mary,
0:34.8	and grandmother of Jesus.
0:36.9	And the reason we're talking about shrines of St. Anne is because this episode will be released
0:41.3	near July 26th, which is the Feast of St. Anne and her husband Jokum, and it also happens
0:47.1	to be my birthday.
0:48.5	Yes, so happy birthday.
0:50.7	Thank you.
0:52.0	Well, I'm glad you keep making trips around the sun.
0:55.1	Me too.
0:55.6	You should keep that up.
0:56.7	Yeah, I'll do my best.
0:58.5	Also, I've always appreciated being born on this great feast day.
1:01.7	The day we honor the woman in whose womb the immaculate conception took place and who certainly
1:07.4	would have had a large role to play in raising Jesus.
1:10.8	I've long had a special love for St. Anne because of that.
1:13.5	Yeah, you've said that more than once.
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