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Saint Anna was the wife of Saint Joachim, and their lives were occupied in prayer and good works. Nevertheless, they were childless, held as a sign of misfortune by the Jews. But in her old age God blessed her to miraculously become the mother of the Virgin Mary. She vowed her daughter to God, and at the age of three led her to the temple, saw her pass into the sanctuary, and then saw her no more.

One of the most venerated Saints of Christianity, her help is especially sought by housewives, barren women, and women in labor, and also invoked against poverty and for finding lost objects