Name
Anna, mother of Mary
Saint ID
S01614
Gender
Female
Type of Saint
| ID | Title | E03811 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 25 July *Anna (mother of Mary, S01614), *Olympias (deaconess and abbess of Constantinople, ob. c. 408, S01414), *Eupraxia (virgin and ascetic at Tabenna, S01637), *Kyprianos and Ioustina (martyrs of Antioch, S01704), *George (probably the soldier and martyr, S00259). | E04281 | Procopius of Caesarea, in his On Buildings, reports that the emperor Justinian (r. 527-565) built churches dedicated to *Anna (S01614, mother of the Virgin Mary) and to *Zoe (martyr of Attaleia, S01600) in Constantinople in the district of Deuteron. Written in Greek at Constantinople, in the 550s. | E05971 | Coptic ostracon from the area of Hermonthis (Upper Egypt) with an excerpt from a calendar of saints’ feast days, such as those of *Jakob (S00858), *Arsenios and Loukios (ascetics of Syrian origin, and martyrs near Panopolis, S02600), *Theognosta (perhaps the mother of George, S01537), *Athanasios (possibly the bishop of Alexandria, ob. 373, S00294), *David (Old Testament king of Israel and Psalmist, S00269), *Daniel (possibly the disciple and biographer of Arsenios, S02379) *Zoilos (possibly the disciple of Arsenios, S02378) and *Anna (possibly the mother of Mary, S01614), *Maria (possibly Mary, mother of Christ, S00033) and *Sophia (perhaps the head of a convent in Edessa, ob. 363, S02381); datable to the 7th century. |
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