Saint Anne DeBupre – Saint Anne with Mary – Patron of Housewives, Mothers and Grandmothers – Archival Print – Catholic Art Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):13x17 unframed and as embroideries

and as embroideries

For critics of icons

this Madonna by Marianne Stokes arrests the eye with its colors and composition

He became a Franciscan tertiary

It is like a scroll from the olden days which tells us of secret riches

Saint Anne DeBupre – Saint Anne with Mary – Patron of Housewives, Mothers and Grandmothers – Archival Print – Catholic Art Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):13x17 unframed and as embroideriesThis print is a vintage image of Saint Anne, mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I love the richness of this painting, which is not attempting at the realism of the time and place in which they lived. Rather, this picture points to the royalty of our most holy Mother, and of her own mother, who shared in that holiness. In fact, with the birth of Jesus, we all are called to share in that royalty, the richness of the Kingdom of God, which is not an