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Prayers to St. Anne

For 114 years, the faithful have sought the intercession of Mary's mother at the Shrine of St. Anne located within Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood. They come from all over, and year after year, to venerate her relic and offer prayers.

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A woman holds a candle and makes her way back in Our Lady of Fatima Church following a procession around the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Feast of Sts. Joachim and Anne July 26. She attended the parish's annual novena to St. Anne.

Photo: Karen Callaway / Catholic New World