The Blessed Mother labored for Love Himself, giving birth to God’s only Son Jesus and raising Him here on earth. By extension, her mother St. Anne’s labor bringing her into the world was similarly blessed. In honor of Mary’s birthday on Sept. 8, the feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary Sept. 12, and the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows Sept. 15, get to know more about the life of Mary through the visions of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, an Augustinian nun and stigmatic (someone who bears the physical wounds of Christ, called the stigmata), in “The Life of the Virgin Mary.”