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68 68 B. ANNA danghter, Salome the midwife ; Sobe was the mother of St. Elizabeth, mother of St. John the Baptist ; Anna, the youngest, married in Galilee, and brought forth Mary, the mother of Jesns. Baillet, Vies dea SawU, " St. Joachim," March 20, says that wo know from St. Gregory of Nyssa and other reliable writers, that these traditions come to us from apocryphal histories of St. Mary, containing divers superstitions. Nothing is known with certainty of the father of the B. V. Mary, except that he was of the house of David. If the genealogy given by St. Luke is that of Mary, then her father was Heli. St. Gregory XIII., by a brief dated 1584, xommanded a double feast to be celebrated in honour of St. Anna, through- out all Christendom. The worship of St. Joachim was not established by authority in the Latin Church until 1622, under Gregory XV. B. Anna (4), March 5, V. Time of the Apostles. Wife of St. Conon, bishop of Bida or Bidana, in Isauria, who con- verted his fJEither and mother, Nestor and Nada, to the Christian faith. Anne, together with Nestor, is, by the Greek Church, honoured among the martyrs. Conon is commemorated March 5. Pape« broch and Henschenius are uncertain as to Anna's right to the honours of saint- ship. Boll., AA.SS. St. Anna (5), Oct. 22. 2nd or 3rd century. Was converted by seeing the ijonstancy under torture of St. Alexander, M., bishop of a place unknown, and was put to death with him, Heraclius a soldier, and SS. Theodota (2) and Gli- CEBiA (2). St. Elizabeth (2) is com- memorated with them, but is supposed to have been martyred at another place and time. A church in their honour was built at Constantinople. They are mentioned in the Menology of Basils but Oreek saints were received with caution by the Western Church, because many schismatics were honoured among them. Benjamin Bossue, in BolL, AA.SS., Oct. 22, ix. St. Anna (0), Nov. 20, V. M. c. 343, with Bahuta. St Anna (7), March 20, M. c. 370. One of the earliest Christians among the Goths on the Danube. She was with five other women and twenty men in a church which was burned by Jungerich, king of the Goths, in the time of the Emperors Valens and Gratian : the names of the other women were Allas or Halas, Paris or Baris or Bark a, Moico or Mamica, ViRco or Vico, and Animais. Boll., AA,8S. St. Anna (8), Oct. 2 or 28, or May 4, M at Jerusalem, in the 4th century. Patron of Ancona. Went with her son, St. Cyriacus, bishop and martyr, to visit the holy places. They were arrested by order of Julian the apostate, hung up by her hair, and burned with lamps; she died under the torture. Her body was translated to Ancona by the Empress B. Galla Placidia, in the following cen- tury. Anna is mentioned in the Greek and Ethiopian calendars. Her history is only known from the fabulous Acta of her son. As a £Eu^t, there was no general persecution of Christians under Julian, although there doubtless were cases where the malice or covetousness of those in power, or special provocation on the part of certain Christians, led to the oppression or murder of individuals. Boll., AA.SS. Gynecxum, St. Anna (iO. 5th or 0th century. Patrpn of the cnurch of East Looe, in Cornwall. Daughter of the Prince of Glamorgan. Married Amwyn, or Amnon the Black, prince of Bro-Weroc, in Brit- tany, i.e, the country about Yannes which was colonized from Britain. SS. Padarn, Male, and Magloire were of the same illustrious Welsh stock. Anna was sister of GwEN Julitta and mother of St. Samson, bishop of Dol, in Brittany, who was born about 520. A holy well in the churchyard of Whitstone, in Corn* wall, bears her name. Her worship — in England, at all events — is much older than that of St. Anna (3), mother of the B. V. Mary. Kev. S. Baring Gould, Book of the West. Stadler. Butler. St. Anna (lO), Nov. 28. A young widow of high rank dwelling in Con- stantinople towards the middle of the 8th century. Disciple and spiritual daughter of St. Stephen of Mount St. Auxentius, also called St. Stephen the Younger, to distinguish bim from two