ANNA MARIA TAIGI
SAINT
Anna Maria Taigi, born Anna Maria Giannetti, was an Italian Roman Catholic professed member from the Secular Trinitarians. She married Domenico Taigi, a brash and impulsive individual though devoted to his wife. Wikipedia
Born: May 28, 1769, Siena, Italy
Died: June 9, 1837, Rome, Italy
Patronage: Housewives; Mothers; Victims of verbal abuse; Victims of spousal abuse; Families; Trinitarian tertiaries
Beatified: 30 May 1920 by Pope Benedict XV
†PRAYER DICTATED BY THE MOTHER OF GOD TO BLESSED ANNA MARIA TAIGI†
Prostrate at thy holy feet, Great Queen of Heaven, I venerate thee with profoundest reverence, and acknowledge thee as the DAUGHTER of God the Father, the MOTHER of the Divine Word, and the SPOUSE of the Holy Ghost. Thou art the treasurer and the distributor of Their mercies. It is because of thy most pure heart, so full of charity, sweetness, and tenderness for sinners, that I call thee Mother of Divine Compassion. Wherefore I present myself to thee with great confidence, my most loving mother; I am in affliction and filled with anguish, and I pray thee to make me taste the truth of thy love by granting me the grace I ask of thee, if it be conformable to the Divine Will and good for my soul (Here name your petitions). I entreat thee to turn thy most pure eyes upon me and all belonging to me, especially those who have recommended themselves to my prayers. Behold the terrible war which the devil, the world, and the flesh wage against our souls, and how many of these souls perish.
Remember, O Most Tender Mother that we are all thy children, bought by the Precious Blood of thine only Son. Deign most ardently to pray the Blessed Trinity to grant me the grace always to vanquish the devil, the world, and all my bad passions, that grace by which the just are sanctified yet more, sinners reclaimed, heresies destroyed, infidels enlightened, Jews converted. Ask, most loving mother, this grace through the infinite goodness of the Most High God, by the merits of thy Most Holy Son, by the milk with which thou didst nourish Him, by the devotedness with which thou didst serve Him, by the love wherewith thou didst love Him, by the tears which thou didst shed, by the sorrow thou didst experience in His most Sacred Passion. Obtain for me this great gift, that the whole world may form one only people, and one only Church, which may render glory, honour, and thanksgiving to the Blessed Trinity and to thee who art the mediatrix. May this grace be accorded to me by the POWER of the FATHER, the WISDOM of the SON, and the VIRTUE of the HOLY GHOST. Amen.
Mother, behold the extreme peril of thy children. Mother, who can do all things, have pity on us. Virgo potens, ora pro nobis. Three Ave Marias. Eternal Father, increase ever more in the hearts of the faithful devotion to Mary Thy Daughter. Eternal Son, increase ever more in the hearts of the faithful devotion to Mary Thy Mother. Eternal Spirit, increase ever more in the hearts of the faithful devotion to Mary Thy Spouse. 'Gloria Patri.'
- From the life of Blessed Anna Maria Taigi by Edward Thompson, "Having seen in the mysterious sun the loss of many souls, Anna Maria had been interceding fervently with the Blessed Virgin for their salvation, when the Mother of God was pleased to dictate to her this prayer." Cardinal Pedicini himself took this prayer to the Sovereign Pontiff, Pius VII, who, by a rescript of the 6th March, 1809, granted an indulgence of a hundred days, to be gained for every recital, with a plenary indulgence once a month on the usual conditions."
