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Why do you think your child would have been considered illegitimate?
Annulment does not "erase" a marriage (and thus render children illegitimate). An annulment basically acknowledges a flaw in the marriage, but it doesn't mean you were never married. My 2 kids are from my first husband.

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That was what I was given to understand. Father Manning (who I dearly loved) felt that divorce was a sin. The only references that I found to it in the Bible were that a man was not supposed to divorce his wife.

A friend of mine refuses to remarry to this day for that very reason. She feels that the Church would view her as an adulterer, but again I only found that in reference to man and not woman.

Father Donahue told me the same thing that you have. That it would not effect Matthew's legitimacy.