{"id":85081,"date":"2026-08-01T09:31:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85081"},"modified":"2026-08-01T09:31:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:31:36","slug":"hush-the-mysterious-portrait-of-st-anne-the-mother-of-the-blessed-virgin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/hush-the-mysterious-portrait-of-st-anne-the-mother-of-the-blessed-virgin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hush! The Mysterious Portrait Of St. Anne, The Mother Of The Blessed Virgin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Aleteia<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.en.aleteia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/WEB3-SAINT-ANNE-ANNA-HUSH-FINGER-MOUTH-pd.jpg?resize=1200,675&amp;q=85\" alt=\"SAINT ANNE\" width=\"358\" height=\"201\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"subtitle\">St. Anne is portrayed with her finger to her lips in this 8th- or 9th-century fresco, discovered in old Nubia in present-day Sudan.<\/span><strong>A unique portrait of St. Anne, mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was discovered in the 1960s<\/strong>\u00a0by a Polish archaeological team during an excavation of the Faras Cathedral in old Nubia, in present day Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>According to Archaeotravel.eu, the gesture, which is rarely seen in Christian art, may refer to a Egyptian Christian (Coptic) tradition in which people prayed quietly while holding a finger of the right hand on one\u2019s lips. The gesture was supposed to protect people from the evil that would try to enter the human heart during prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Aleteia: St. Anne is portrayed with her finger to her lips in this 8th- or 9th-century fresco, discovered in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85082,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85081\/revisions\/85082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}