Saint Anne
Mother of Virgin Mary in Christian and Islamic traditions; unnamed in the New Testament or Quran · Religious Figures · Lived 55 BC to AD 12 · aged 66
Saint Anne is read about 1,174 times a day, in 71 languages.
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Something wrong?The mother of Mary, grandmother of Jesus - yet her name appears nowhere in the canonical gospels. Christian tradition fills the silence, drawing from second-century apocrypha to give her identity and a husband named Joachim.
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, O God of our fathers, bless me and hear my prayer, as You blessed the womb of Sarah, and gave her a son Isaac.
As the Lord my God lives, if I beget either male or female, I will bring it as a gift to the Lord my God; and it shall minister to Him in holy things all the days of its life.
Now I know that the Lord God has blessed me exceedingly; for, behold the widow no longer a widow, and I the childless shall conceive.
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The Gospel of James, written around 150 AD, is the earliest text to name her: Anne, wife of Joachim. The canonical gospels stay silent on Mary's parentage; it's the apocrypha that supplied the lineage. Islamic tradition acknowledges Mary's mother in the Quran without naming her. From that narrow textual base, devotion built a figure central to Marian veneration across centuries - the grandmother present by inference, fleshed out by faith where scripture left only a gap.
Religious Figures born in the 60s BC 3
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