St. Anne and the Virgin Mary - Fremont, CA
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N 37° 32.017 W 121° 55.191
10S E 595433 N 4154618
Located in a chapel at Mission San Jose in Fremont, CA
Waymark Code: WMRHHR
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 06/22/2016
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This work depicts the Virgin mary as a child with her mother St. Anne. A placard indicates that the work is made of plaster with glass eyes and is dated c. 1900.
Wikipedia (
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"Saint Anne (also known as Ann or Anna) of David's house and line, was the mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus Christ, according to apocryphal Christian and Islamic tradition. Mary's mother is not named in the canonical gospels, nor in the Qur'an. Anne's name and that of her husband Joachim come only from New Testament apocrypha, of which the Protoevangelium of James (written perhaps around 150) seems to be the earliest that mentions them...
Patronage
St. Anne is patroness of unmarried women, housewives, women in labor, grandmothers, horseback riders, cabinet-makers, and the Mi'kmaq people of Canada. As the Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the devotion to St Anne as the patron of miners arises from the medieval comparison between the Virgin Mary and Christ and precious metals - silver and gold. Anne's womb was considered the source from which these precious metals were mined. St Anne is also said to be a patron saint of sailors and a protector from storms."