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# Miraculous icon of Saint Anne in the Skete of Saint Anne on Mount Athos and prayers for childbirth
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/chudotvornaia-ikona-sviatoi-anny-materi-presviatoi-bogoroditsy-nakhoditsia-riadom-s-prestolom-nastoiatelia-v-glavnom-khrame-skita-sviatoi-anny-na-afone/
- Published: 2025-07-26T12:36:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:50:21.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Ethnography

The wonder-working icon of Saint Anne, mother of the Most Holy Theotokos, stands beside the abbot's stall in the main church of the Skete of Saint Anne on Mount Athos. Prayers for help in conceiving a child are offered before this icon. Boys born in answer to such prayers are usually named Joachim, and girls Anna, after the holy parents of the Most Holy Theotokos