Saint Anne

According to Christian 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. In writing, Anne's name and that of her husband Joachim come from New Testament apocrypha, of which the Gospel of James (written perhaps around 150 AD) seems to be the earliest that mentions them. The mother of Mary is mentioned but not named in the Quran.

Patron saint of Mothers; grandparents; pregnant women; children; unmarried people; teachers; carpenters; child care providers; seamstresses; lacemakers; secondhand-clothes dealers; equestrians; stablemen; miners; lost things; loving homes; poverty; sterility; Brittany; Canada; Detroit; Taguig; Triana, Seville; Santa Ana, Pampanga; Hagonoy, Bulacan; Barili, Cebu; Molo, Iloilo City; Roman Catholic Diocese of Kurunegala; Kurunegala Catholic Diocese, Sri Lanka; Fasnia; Fasnia, Tenerife; Mainar; Marsaskala; Carmelites