FALL RIVER — Nearly five years after the Diocese of Fall River closed St. Anne’s Church due to severe disrepair and dwindling membership, a group dedicated to saving the historic building has begun ...

FALL RIVER — It will cost $13.5 million to renovate and reopen the upper church at St. Anne’s Parish, which has been closed since a large piece of plaster fell off the wall during a weekend Mass three ...

FALL RIVER — St. Anne’s Shrine is not only moving ahead with ongoing renovations; they want the historic Roman Catholic monument, whose twin spires punctuate Fall River’s skyline, to be lauded as an ...

Four hundred miles directly south from the Shrine of St. Anne de Beaupré in Quebec, Canada, there stands another edifice dedicated to Jesus’ grandmother: the Shrine of St. Anne in Fall River, ...

FALL RIVER — The plight of two small Catholic churches has been overshadowed by the impending closure of the landmark St. Anne’s Church and Shrine, slated to offer its last Mass on Nov. 25. On that ...

The chasm was nationwide. At St. Anne’s, it wiped out the church. “We had over 200 communicants,” says T.G. Vallas who started going to St. Anne’s at 701 West Street in 1972, “… right after I came ...

PICO BLVD — A century of tradition is currently on display at St. Anne's Church and Shrine. For 102 years, the congregation has celebrated the Novena, a multi-day celebration honoring the church's ...

FALL RIVER — The first miracle Bob Gauvin ever saw was in the depths of St. Anne’s Church more than 50 years ago. At the time, the church’s shrine regularly hosted healing Masses where parishioners ...

LOWELL — St. Anne’s Episcopal Church members began a yearlong celebration of the church’s 200th anniversary on May 19 led by Diocesan Bishop Alan Gates and joined by worshippers from other Episcopal ...