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| | Parish Mary Gardens of Devotion and Prayerful Work |
 | | Through the years since the first U. Parish Mary Garden was planted at St. Joseph's Church in Woods Hole, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 1932, by Frances Crane Lillie, numerous Mary Gardens have been planted at other parishes - many with assistance from Mary's Gardens of Philadelphia, founded in 1951, with the blessing of Mrs. |
 | | Now that the Flowers of Our Lady and Mary Gardens have become an increasingly familiar part of Catholic culture, and books describing them have been written, Parish Mary Gardens are coming to be more fully incorporated into parish spiritual life, as accepted aspects of devotion and prayerful work. |
 | | For those who already garden, an example of loving, imaginative, childlike reflection on the flowers of Our Lady in a home Mary Garden is found in the article, "In Mary's Garden". |
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