St Anne's Orthodox Church is located 5 miles north of Corvallis, Oregon on Hwy 99 in the unincorporated Benton County community of Lewisburg. The church was established in 1990 as a parish of the Orthodox Church of America (OCA) and is named after the grandmother of our Lord Jesus Christ. amd the mother of the Theotokos, the Blessed Virgin Mary. The services are held on the upper floor of the historic Lewisburg Grange Hall. This building is also known as "Mountain View Grange No. 429" and it is on the National Register of Historic Places. 2011 will mark its centennial year for this building. It is my "home" parish and I'm very happy to be attending services here. So I thought I'd share some pictures I've taken over the past few months and also some from the time I attended their Greek Festival in 2008. About St. Anne: Saint Anne, (also Ann or Anna, from Hebrew Hannah חַנָּה, meaning "favor" or "grace") of David's house and line, was the mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus Christ according to Christian and Islamic tradition. Anne is the Greek rendering of her Hebrew name Hannah. She is also known as the Righteous Anna. St. Anne is the patron saint of grandparents, SAHMS, unmarried women and carpenters. She is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church; Orthodox Church; Anglicanism; Eastern Catholic Churches and Islam. To read more about the righteous Anna, please visit: en.wikipedia.org Troparion - Tone 4 Divinely-wise Anna, you carried in your womb the pure <b>...</b>
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