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The 2011 Novena will take place from July 17 to 25. Saint Anne's Feast Day is July 26. This year, the preacher for the English Novena will be Father Paul Bombardier.

Videos of the Novena 2011.

Father Paul Bombardier was born in Holyoke, MA, in 1953. From 1977 to 1982, he studied theology at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. He was ordained a priest for the diocese of Springfield-in-Massachusetts in 1982. Over the years, Fr. Paul has served in 8 different parishes, and is currently pastor at St. Joseph Parish in Shelburne Falls, MA.  He is no stranger to the Saint Anne family: he has been travelling to the Shrine with the Ahearn Memorial Pilgrimage since 1990, he served at the Shrine for 3 months during the summer of 1999, and he preached the English Novena in 2001. He is also a talented musician and fiber artist (spinning and weaving).  

For more information about the 2011 Novena, please consult our brochure: Download the brochure.