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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 .
13th-century Great Panagia from Yaroslavl.. Panagia (Greek: Παναγία, fem. of panágios, pan-+ hágios, the All-Holy, or the Most Holy; pronounced Ancient Greek pronunciation:) (also transliterated Panaghia or Panayia), in Medieval and Modern Greek, is one of the titles of Mary, mother of God, used especially in Orthodox Christianity and Eastern Catholicism.
Emerentia is the name given for a grandmother of Mary, mother of Jesus, in some European traditions and art from the late 15th century. [1] She is not to be confused with Saint Emerentiana , a Roman martyr of the 3rd century who features briefly in Alban Butler 's The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints 1812, volume 1.
Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christianity, is known by many different titles (Blessed Mother, Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady, Holy Virgin, Madonna), epithets (Star of the Sea, Queen of Heaven, Cause of Our Joy), invocations (Panagia, Mother of Mercy, God-bearer Theotokos), and several names associated with places (Our Lady of Loreto, Our Lady of Fátima).
Joachim (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ ə k ɪ m /; Hebrew: יהויקים, romanized: Yəhoyāqim, lit. 'he whom Yahweh has set up'; Greek: Ἰωακείμ, romanized: Iōākeím) was, according to Sacred tradition, the husband of Saint Anne, the father of Mary (mother of Jesus), and the maternal grandfather of Jesus.
The Greek word Panayia (Παναγία) or Panagia literally means “All Holy;” however, it is used in the Eastern Orthodox Church as a title for the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. In English, and in western Christian traditions like the Roman Catholic Church, the analogous title is “Our Lady.”
The Duggar family is mourning a great loss.. A day after the family shared the tragic news that Mary Duggar, the mom to Jim Bob Duggar, died on Sunday, a rep for the Washington County Coroner’s ...
The Panagia Ierosolymitissa icon (Greek: Παναγία Ιεροσολυμίτισσα) or the All-Holy Lady of Jerusalem icon of the Mother of God is an acheiropoieton located in the Tomb of Mary in Gethsemane in Jerusalem. The icon is considered by Orthodox Christians to be the patroness of Jerusalem. [1]