Saint Anne / Hannah - Sources?

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What are the Sources for this profile?
Born Cornwall, Wales
Death: Maluku, Indonesia !!
Justin Durand can you help here ?

Both places are clearly a mistake.

The primary source for St. Anne is the Protoevangelium of James. It has nothing so exotic as this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_James
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Anne

Her parents also seem to be a nice bit of Geni fantasy. There are some theories and guesses but these aren't even in the mainstream.

From Congregation of the Sisters of the Catechesis of Saint Anne:

Descendence: Anna was originally from the tribe of Judah from the lineage of David. Like the descendants, they could only contract marriage with women of the same tribe, according to the law and in the fulfillment of the same one, Saint Joaquim took her like wife.

Santa Ana died before Mary married to St. Joseph, at the age of eighty-nine, and was buried in Jerusalem next to St. Joachim.

Wikipedia (in portuguese is a little bit different):

"They were residents in Jerusalem, next to the pool of Bethesda, where today stands the Basilica of Santana; and there, on a Saturday, September 8, 20 BCE, the daughter was born to them, named Miriam, who in Hebrew means "Lady of Light", passed to the Latin as Mary. Mary was offered to the Temple of Jerusalem at the age of three, and remained there until the age of twelve.

Through the text Cave of the Treasures, attributed to Ephrem of Syria*, Ana (Hannâ) was daughter of Pâkôdh and its husband was called Yônâkhîr. Yônâkhîr and Jacob were sons of Matã and Sabhrath. Jacob was the father of Joseph, so Joseph and Mary were cousins."

*Ephrem of Syria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephrem_the_Syrian

Others sources:

http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/reames-middle-english-legends...

https://web.archive.org/web/20130605122050/http://www.catholic-foru...

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01538a.htm

There are many different traditions, and the earliest reference to her is about 150 CE so it all has be taken on faith.

Have removed place names and parents. Thanks you two.

Heli ben Matat seems not to be her husband?

Heli is part of Jesus' genealogy. One theory is that it is another name for Joachim so he was husband of Anna, which neatly ties up all the relationships. However, it's all just speculation. People have been improving on the facts for 2 thousand years.

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