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Anna, all mothers truly you surpassed,
Until your daughter should become your Mother.
Anna brought into the light on the eighth of this month God’s own Mother.
About the Feast
Synaxarion of the Nativity of the Theotokos
On the Nativity of the Theotokos - Various Church Fathers
Oration on the Nativity of the Holy Theotokos Mary (St. John of Damascus)
Why Was the Virgin Mary Born of a Sterile Woman? (St. John of Damascus)
On the Nativity of the Theotokos (St. Andrew of Crete)
On the Saving Nativity of our Most Pure Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary (St. Gregory Palamas)
On the Nativity Of The Theotokos (St. Dimitri of Rostov)
Homily on the Nativity of the Theotokos (St. John of Kronstadt)
On the Nativity of the Theotokos (St. Nikolai Velimirovich)
Homily on the Nativity of the Theotokos (St. Luke of Simferopol)
The Immense Joy of the Birth of the Theotokos (Elder George Kapsanis)
The Historical Development of the Feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos
An Explanation of the Icon of the Birth of the Theotokos
Shrines and Icons Celebrated on September 8th
Panagia Tsambika in Rhodes
Panagia Tsambika, the Panagia of the Childless (video)
Panagia Skiadeni in Rhodes
Panagia Vrontiani in Samos
Panagia Sikelia in Chios
Panagia Vourniotissa of Tinos
Panagia Kalamiotissa in Anafi
Panagia Kathariotissa in Ithaca
Panagia Plataniotissa in Kalavryta
Synaxis of Panagia the Giatrissa in Loutraki of Corinth
Panagia Katsimikados in Kyparissia
Synaxis of the Panagia the Gladness of All Generations at Agiou Demetriou
The Athonite Island of Kyra Panagia
A Church Where the Theotokos Confirms the Practice of Fasting
Panagia Stomiou Monastery in Konitsa and Elder Paisios
The Icon of Sophia, the Wisdom of God of Kiev
The Wonderworking Kursk Icon Returns Home
Miracles of September 8th
The Miracle of the Panagia Skripou in Orchomenos on September 10, 1943
Miscellany
Saints Joachim and Anna Resource Page
The Immaculate Conception and the Orthodox Church
Patriarch Bartholomew on the Immaculate Conception
The Error of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin
