Editing Saint Anne (section)

==Veneration==
[[File:Adriaen van Overbeke - Birth of St. Anne - Petrikirche altarpiece.jpeg|thumb|left|''Birth of St. Anne'', by [[Adriaen van Overbeke]] ({{Circa|1521}}–1525)]]

In the Eastern church, the [[Veneration#Christianity|veneration]] of Anne herself may go back as far as {{Circa|550}}, when Justinian built a church in Constantinople in her honour.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DosEAAAAQAAJ&q=Justinian+Constantinople+church+%22St+Anne%22&pg=PA97|title=The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints. ed. by F.C. Husenbeth. [With] The history of the blessed virgin Mary, by the abbé Orsini, tr. by F.C. Husenbeth|last1=Butler|first1=Alban|last2=Orsini|first2=Mathieu|date=1857|publisher=Henry|location=London|pages=97|language=en}}</ref> The earliest pictorial sign of her veneration in the West is an eighth-century fresco in the church of [[Santa Maria Antiqua]], Rome.<ref name="reames" /> The [[Feast of the Conception of the Virgin Mary]] had reached southern Italy by the ninth century. In the Latin Church St. Anne was not venerated, except, perhaps, in the south of France, before the thirteenth century.<ref name="holweck" /> A shrine at Douai, in northern France, was one of the early centres of devotion to St. Anne in the West.<ref name="crawley">{{cite web |url=http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/ANNE.HTM |title=Lives of Saints, John J. Crawley & Co., Inc |publisher=Ewtn.com |access-date=15 August 2013 |archive-date=18 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718101138/http://www.ewtn.com/library/mary/anne.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The ''[[Virgin and Child with Saint Anne|Anna Selbdritt]]'' was a type of iconography depicting the three generations of Saint Anne, Mary, and the child Jesus. Emphasizing the humanity of Jesus, it drew on the earlier conventions of the [[Seat of Wisdom]], and was popular in northern Germany in the 1500s.<ref>Welsh, Jennifer. ''The Cult of St. Anne in Medieval and Early Modern Europe'', Routledge, 2016, {{ISBN|9781134997879}}</ref> During the High Middle Ages, Saint Anne became increasingly identified as a maritime saint, protecting sailors and fisherman, and invoked against storms.<ref name=ottawa/>

Two well-known shrines to St. Anne are that of [[Sainte-Anne-d'Auray|Ste-Anne-d'Auray]] in Brittany, France; and that of [[Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré|Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré]] near the city of Québec. The number of visitors to the Basilica of Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré is greatest on St Anne's Feast Day, 26 July, and the Sunday before the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, 8 September. In 1892, Pope Leo XIII sent a relic of St Anne to the church.<ref name=ottawa>{{cite web |url=http://www.olomc-ottawa.com/Anne&Joachim.html |title=Saint Anne and Saint Joachim, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, Ottawa, Ontario |publisher=Olomc-ottawa.com |access-date=15 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810123226/http://www.olomc-ottawa.com/Anne%26Joachim.html |archive-date=10 August 2014 }}</ref>

In the [[Maltese language]], the [[Milky Way]] galaxy is called ''It-Triq ta' Sant'Anna'', literally "The Way of St. Anne".<ref name="malt_TheM">{{Cite web| title = The Milky Way Project – It-Triq ta' Sant'Anna {{!}} What is the Milky Way?| work = maltastro.org| access-date = 2 November 2015| url = http://www.maltastro.org/milkyway/?page_id=56| archive-date = 4 March 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304093003/http://www.maltastro.org/milkyway/?page_id=56| url-status = dead}}</ref> In the United States, the [[Daughters of the Holy Spirit]] named the former [[Annhurst College]] in her honor.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/367744245/ |title=State Board Accredits New College |newspaper=[[Hartford Courant]] |location=[[Hartford, Connecticut]] |page=2 |date=26 May 1944 |access-date=2 November 2019 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref>