Feast of St. Joachim and St. Ann

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From Mary Reed Newland’s “The Year and Our Children”

St. Anne is the patroness of old clothes dealers, seamstresses, laceworkers, housekeepers, carpenters, turners, cabinetmakers, stablemen, and broom makers, and she is invoked against poverty and to find lost objects. Although the martyrology doesn’t say so, she must be the patroness of Grandmothers, and we love her for that because we could never get along without our grandmothers. The children love to recall that if she was still there when the Christ Child learned to talk, He called her Grandmother. The nicest of her symbols we think is a cradle with the infant Virgin Mary in it.