Saunt Anne

This airticle is aboot the mither o the Virgin Mary. For ither uisses, see Saunt Anne (disambiguation).

Saint Anne
Greek icon o Saunt Anne an Mary, bi Angelos Akotantos
Mither o the Virgin, Mystic, Maternal Heroine, Wumman o Amram
Born	c. 1st century B.C.E.
Veneratit in	Christianity Islam
Feast	26 Julie (Wastren calendar) an 25 Julie (Eastren calendar)
Attributes	Book, door, wi Mary, Jesus or Joachim
Patronage	carpenters; bairnless fowk; equestrians; grandparents; hamemakers/hoosewives; lace makers; lost airticles; Fasnia (Tenerife); Mainar; Detroit; miners; mithers; muivin hoose; auld-clothes dealers; poverty; pregnancy; seamstresses; stablemen; sterility

Saunt Anne (kent as Ann or Anna an aw, frae Ebreu Hannah חַנָּה, meanin "favor" or "grace") o David's hoose an line, wis the mither o the Virgin Mary an guidmither o Jesus Christ, accordin tae Christian an Islamic tradeetion. Mary's mither is no namit in the canonical gospels, nor in the Qur'an. Anne's name an that o her husband Joachim come anerly frae New Testament apocrypha, o which the Protoevangelium o James (written aiblins aroond 150) seems tae be the earliest that mentions thaim.