Catholic Heroes… St. Anne, Mother Of Mary
By DEB PIROCH Our Baba, or my Great-Grandmother Anna, was an immigrant to this country from Slovakia. I was blessed to know her when I was very young, elementary school age, and she about 90. She and her husband Joseph had been married over 70 years. She was fragile and was reverting to speaking Slovak again, but always had a rosary in her hand.My father, Joe, stayed with his grandparents during his days in high school and later again in medical school. She was a third order Franciscan and each night retired to do her prayers after dinner. He would bring her tea and they would talk and she knew, in her holy simplicity, just the right advice to give…Continue Reading