On 4th July, two priests have been ordained in the basilica of Sainte Anne d'Auray in Brittany for the Institute of the God Shepherd. These two new ordained are bretons : Fr Beaugrand from Vannes in Morbihan and Fr Raffray from Erquy in Côtes d'Armor. Arbishop Appignanesi ordained them. they will never forget this arbishop not only because of ordination but about his caracter and the testmony he gave them.
The Basilica was built to honour St. Anne, the patroness of Brittany, who appeared to Yves Nicolazic during the years 1624-5. The apparitions were approved by the Local Ordinary and pilgrimages, known locally as pardons began. The Basilica was particularly favoured by Queen Anne of Austria and her husband, Louis XIII, especially by the donation of a relic of the Saint brought from the Holy Land during the Crusades, and the sponsorship of the erection of a Confraternity of St. Anne there. The miraculous statue of St. Anne was publicly burnt at Vannes during the Revolution. The Shrine continued to be popular in spite of athiestical machinations and reached its zenith during the reign of Blessed Pius IX, who raised to Confraternity to an Archconfraternity, commanded the image of St. Anne to be crowned, once the new Basilica, begun in 1866, was complete, and donated the High Altar.
C'est notre mère à tous;
mort ou vivant, dit-on,
A Sainte-Anne, une fois,
doit aller tout Breton.
Thanks to Traditional Vocations blog
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