Come, all creation, let us praise the divinely wise Anna on cymbals and with psalms, who from her womb gave birth to the divine mountain, and has passed to the spiritual mountains and the dwelling-placesof paradise, and let us cry out to her: Blessed is thy womb which bore her who truly carried within her womb the Light of the world, and comely are thy breasts which nourished with milk her who with milk nurtured Christ, the Nourishment of our life! Whom do thou entreat, that He deliver us from all tribulation and every assault of the enemy, and save our souls. (A hymn for Vespers of the feast of St Anne in the Byzantine Rite.)
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| An icon of St Anne holding the Virgin Mary, ca. 1440-57 by Angelos Akotandos (1400-57) |
