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ST/JD/57

Anne, the mother of Mary

Gender
Female
Floruit (period)
Biblical
Floruit date range
? - ?
Description
Mother of Mary the Blessed Virgin. First mentioned by name in the apocryphal gospel of James (2nd cent.) Justinian built a church in her honour at Constantinople. Relics were taken from Constantinople to Jerusalem and Rome. Her feast, 'the conception of St Anne', was kept at Naples in the tenth century, and soon afterwards in England and Ireland. ODS, 24-5.
Categories
major type minor type confidence notes
None Apocryphal 100 None
ethnicity
ethnicity description confidence notes
no ethnicity available
feast days
month day fixed? description notes
7 26 yes Anne the mother of Mary None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
no attributes given
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations