O Lord, God of our Fathers, who bestowed on Saints Joachim and Anne this grace, that of them should be born the Mother of your incarnate Son, grant, through the prayers of both, that we may attain the salvation you have promised to your people. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.
(Collect for July 26, Memorial of Sts. Joachim and Anne, parents of Mary)
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Meeting of Joachim and Anne outside the Golden Gate of Jerusalem, 1497, Filippino Lippi
O Lord, God of our Fathers,