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 sense was rendered ineffectual from the want of energy. The kindness of her disposition obtained for her the title of good queen Anne, she was an excellent wife and mother, and a kind mistress.

ANN OF SAVOY, the daughter of Amadeus the Fifth, count of Savoy, who married Andronicus the Younger, emperor of Constantinople, and was crowned empress 1326. By some historians she is called Joanna, but is generally known by the name of Anna, Empress of Constantinople. Her arrival in that city with a splendid retinue of knights from Savoy and Piedmont, was the occasion of great festivity. The Italian knights displayed their skill in hunting, tilting, and other manly exercises, much to the delight of the Byzantines, who were by them taught the practice of tournaments. The empress Anna appears to have been benevolent and fond of justice, and to have exercised a beneficial influence over her husband.

ANN, SAINT, mother of the Virgin Mary, was the daughter of Matthias, a priest of Bethlehem, of the family of Aaron. She was married, it is stated, to St. Joachim, and after an unfruitful union of twenty-two years, gave birth to Mary, the mother of our Saviour. It is remarkable that the name of Ann is not once mentioned in the Scriptures, nor in the writings of the fathers of the first three centuries of the Christian era; and that the time of her death is as uncertain as the events of her life; and yet the feast of Saint Ann was celebrated by the Greeks as early as the sixth century, the day being July 25th. Justinian erected a church in her honour at Constantinople, in the year 550, but it does not appear that Saint Ann was then asserted to be the mother of the virgin, although, according to Codrinus, this character was assigned to her without a question in 705, when the second emperor Justinian, built another church in her name. Among the Latins, the worship of Saint Ann was not introduced until a much later period.

ANTIGONE, daughter of Œdipus, king of Thebes, by his sister Jocasta. This incestuous union brought a curse on the innocent Antigone; yet she never failed in her duty to her father, but attended him in his greatest misfortunes. She was slain by the usurper Creon, whose son Hæmon, being in love with her, killed himself upon her tomb. Her death was avenged on Creone by Theseus, and her name has been immortalized in a tragedy by Sophocles. She lived about B. C. 1250.

ANTONIA MAJOR, eldest daughter of Marc Antony and Octavia, sister to Augustus, was born B. C. 89. She married L. Domitius. Some of the most illustrious persons in Rome were descended from her. It was her misfortune that the infamous Messalina and Nero were her grandchildren.

ANTONIA MINOR, of the, was born B. C. 36. She married Drusus,