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A statue
and
relic of
St.
Anne,
depicted
with her
daughter,
the
Blessed
Virgin
Mary, is
seen at
a side
altar
inside
Ste.
Anne
Church
in
southwest
Detroit.
According
to oral
and
written
tradition,
though
not
recorded
in
Sacred
Scripture,
St. Anne
and her
husband,
St.
Joachim,
were
advanced
in age
when God
answered
their
prayers
for a
daughter.
(James
Silvestri
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Pope
Francis
grants
Ste.
Anne
Church
in
Detroit
honorary
title of
‘Minor
Basilica’
Detroit
Archbishop
Allen H.
Vigneron
announced
today
that the
Holy
Father,
Pope
Francis,
has
granted
the
title of
Minor
Basilica
to Ste.
Anne
Church,
located
at 1000
St. Anne
Street
in
Detroit.
The
title is
given to
churches
around
the
world to
denote a
particular
importance
in
liturgical
and
pastoral
life and
a closer
relationship
with the
pope.
The
title of
Major
Basilica
is
reserved
to
churches
in Rome.
“As
our
founding
parish,
Ste.
Anne was
among
the
first
fruits
of a new
missionary
diocese.
In the
church’s
designation
as a
basilica,
it will
stand as
a
profound
reminder
to all
who
visit of
our
continuing
mission
to
unleash
the
Gospel
in our
communities,”
Archbishop
Vigneron
said.
“We in
the
Archdiocese
of
Detroit
are
truly
blessed
by the
Holy
Father’s
recognition
of its
historic
significance
to the
City of
Detroit
and its
importance
to the
liturgical
life of
the
entire
Archdiocese.”
Archbishop
Vigneron
in July
of 2018
requested
that the
Vatican’s
Congregation
for
Divine
Worship
and
Discipline
of the
Sacraments
grant
the
title to
the
parish
church,
which
was
consecrated
on
October
30,
1887. It
is the
eighth
church
constructed
for the
use of
the
parish
community,
which
dates
back to
Ste.
Anne’s
feast
day,
July 26
in 1701
– just
two days
after
Antoine
de la
Mothe
Cadillac
and his
companions,
including
two
Catholic
priests,
established
the
settlement
of Fort
Ponchartrain
du
Détroit.
Ste.
Anne
Parish
remains
the
second-oldest
continuously
operating
Catholic
parish
in the
United
States.
The
parish’s
most
well-known
pastor,
Fr.
Gabriel
Richard,
authored
the
motto
for
Detroit,
“Speramus
meliora;
resurget
cineribus,”
(“We
hope for
better
things;
it will
rise
from the
ashes,”)
after
the
Great
Fire of
1805.
Fr.
Richard’s
final
resting
place is
at Ste.
Anne.
“We
are most
grateful
to Pope
Francis
for the
designation
and to
Archbishop
Vigneron
for
championing
this
effort,”
said
Monsignor
Charles
Kosanke,
pastor
of Ste.
Anne
Parish.
“In
celebrating
this
honor,
we
embrace
our
added
responsibility
as a
basilica
to
increase
our
efforts
to serve
as a
welcoming
place of
prayer
and
spiritual
renewal
for all
who
visit.
We pray
especially
for the
intercession
of Ste.
Anne,
patroness
of
Detroit
and our
parish,
that she
may
become a
special
source
of
wisdom
and
inspiration
for the
faithful
of the
Archdiocese
and
beyond.”
Ste.
Anne is
now one
of 86
churches
in the
United
States —
and only
the
third
church
in
Michigan
— to
hold the
title of
Minor
Basilica.
The
Archdiocese
of
Detroit’s
National
Shrine
of the
Little
Flower
Basilica
in Royal
Oak was
named a
Minor
Basilica
in 2015
and the
Basilica
of St.
Adalbert
in Grand
Rapids
received
the
title in
1980.
To
mark
Ste.
Anne’s
designation
as a
Minor
Basilica,
Archbishop
Vigneron
will
preside
at a
solemn
celebration
of Mass
with a
reading
of the
decree
at 12
p.m.
Sunday,
April
26. The
church’s
title
also
will
change
to that
of a
basilica,
to
reflect
its new
designation.
Due to
its
closer
connection
to the
pope,
Ste.
Anne
will see
enhancements
to its
already-active
liturgical
life
throughout
the
year.
Though
the
schedule
of
services
week-to-week
will not
change,
Ste.
Anne
will
observe
various
feast
days
associated
with St.
Peter
and the
papacy.
To
demonstrate
it met
criteria
for
becoming
a Minor
Basilica,
Ste.
Anne
extensively
documented
its
heightened
liturgical
activity
and its
architectural
stature.
The
current
church
structure
was
built in
1886 to
serve as
the
parish’s
eighth
worship
space,
but it
contains
many
artifacts
from the
so-called
“Stone
Church,”
the
church
building
that
preceded
the
present
structure.
Among
the
items
removed
to the
current
building
are the
1818
cornerstone,
the
altar in
the
chapel,
the
communion
rail,
the
Beaubien
Bell,
and the
statue
of Ste.
Anne and
Mary. In
addition,
some
windows
removed
from the
earlier
church
and
reinstalled
at Ste.
Anne
hold the
oldest
stained
glass
found in
Detroit.
Ste.
Anne
Parish
has a
membership
of 575
families
and
offers
three
regular
Masses
each
weekend,
including
one in
Spanish.
During
the
week,
daily
Masses
are
offered
both in
English
and
Spanish.
Mass at
Ste.
Anne
Parish
de
Detroit
this
weekend
is
Sunday
at 8:30
a.m., 10
a.m. (in
Spanish),
and 12
noon.
The
parish
is named
for St.
Anne,
the
mother
of the
Blessed
Virgin
Mary and
patron
saint of
the
Archdiocese
of
Detroit.
In
recognition
of the
parish’s
special
devotion
to St.
Anne,
Archbishop
Vigneron
in 2017
established
an
official
Archdiocesan
Shrine
inside
the
church.
The
“Shrine”
references
a
side-altar
located
inside
the
church,
at the
southeast
corner,
and
includes
a
display
of a
first
class
relic in
front of
a statue
of St.
Anne.
The
statue
of St.
Anne
with a
teenage
Mary is
from
the 1828
church
built by
Fr.
Gabriel
Richard.
The
relic is
from the
ancient
shrine
of Ste.
Anne
d’Auray
in
France.
The
Archdiocese
of
Detroit
has 1.1
million
Catholics
in 217
parishes
across
Wayne,
Oakland,
Macomb,
Monroe,
St.
Clair
and
Lapeer
counties
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