Counselling available for pilgrims

Devoted: St Anne’s Novena and Feast 2015 organising committee chairman Joseph Stanislaus cleaning a statue of St Anne and her daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, in preparation of the coming feast at St Anne’s Church in Bukit Mertajam.

BUKIT MERTAJAM: Pilgrims at the annual St Anne’s Feast at the famed St Anne’s Church here usually seek blessings from the patron saint. Now, they also come for a shoulder to cry on.

Many pilgrims are coming for the free professional counselling services that the church introduced last year.