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According to apocrypha, as well as Christian and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the Bible's canonical gospels .
As such, orthodox Islamic belief has upheld the virgin birth of Jesus, [5] and although the classical Islamic thinkers never dwelt on the question of the perpetual virginity of Mary, [5] it was generally agreed in traditional Islam that Mary remained a virgin throughout her life, with the Quran's mention of Mary's purification “from the touch ...
Saint Joachim. In medieval art, he often wears a conical Jewish hat. He is often treated as a saint, with a halo, but in the Latin Church, there was some awareness that he had quite likely died too soon to be counted as a Christian. Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate was a popular subject in artistic renditions of the life of the Virgin.
According to apocryphal Christian and Islamic tradition, Joachim and Saint Anne were the parents of Mary and grandparents of Jesus. They are not named in the canonical gospels . In writing, Anne's name and that of her husband, Joachim come only from New Testament apocrypha , of which the Gospel of James (written perhaps around 150) seems to be ...
Articles relating to Saint Anne, who according to apocryphal Christian and Islamic tradition, was the mother of Mary and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
The Church of Saint Anne (French: Église Sainte-Anne, Latin: Ecclesia S. Anna, Arabic: كنيسة القديسة حنة, Hebrew: כנסיית סנטה אנה) is a French Roman Catholic church and part of the French national domain in the Holy Land [] [1] located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, near the start of the Via Dolorosa, next to the Lions' Gate.
According to Christian tradition, Joachim is the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, mother of Jesus. As there is sparse evidence for Joachim being the name for the father of Mary, the Quranic account possibly alludes to the pun of Miriam, the daughter of Amram and sister of Aaron, for whom Muslim tradition believes Mary is named ...
Saint Anne is traditionally the name of the mother of the Virgin Mary, ... Anna M. Gade, American Islamic scholar; Anna Jo Garcia Haynes (born 1934), ...