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🧒👦 Niños: Las clases comienzan 21 de septiembre

👩‍🦳👨‍🦳 Adultos: Las clases comienzan 22 de septiembre

👉 Inscriba a su hijo o a usted mismo para crecer en la fe, aprender más sobre la Iglesia y prepararse para los sacramentos.

📍 Para más información o para registrarse, comuníquese con la oficina parroquial.

📢 Religious Education – Registration Open

Everyone is welcome!

🧒👦 Children: Classes begin September 21

👩‍🦳👨‍🦳 Adults: Classes begin September 22

👉 Enroll yourself or your child to grow in faith, learn more about the Church, and prepare for the sacraments.

📍 For more information or to register, please contact the parish office.

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary 

September 8

The Nativity of the Virgin Mary is one of the Church’s oldest Marian feasts. Its roots go back to the 4th-century dedication of a Marian basilica in Jerusalem, later replaced in the 12th century by today’s Church of St. Anne. Tradition holds that this was the home of Mary’s parents, Joachim and Anne, and the place of her birth.

Rome adopted the feast in the 8th century under Pope Sergius I. It is the third “nativity” on the Roman calendar, alongside Christmas (December 25), the birth of John the Baptist (June 24), and Mary’s own nativity on September 8. The Gospels give no details about the date or Mary’s parents, whose names come instead from the 2nd-century Protoevangelium of James, an apocryphal text.

In Milan, the celebration dates back to the 10th century. The cathedral, dedicated to “Mary born,” was consecrated in 1572 by St. Charles Borromeo. Also in Milan, the sanctuary on Santa Sofia Street preserves a statue of the newborn Mary, made in the 18th century by a Franciscan nun from Todi. A reported miracle in 1884 — the sudden healing of a young postulant, Giulia Macario — helped spread popular devotion to this image.