Saint Anne, the mother of Mary, is not a biblical figure. She first appears in a 2nd century apocryphal infancy gospel as part of the story of the saviour's bir

Michael Alan Anderson explores the political implications of music devoted to St Anne in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

Those who venerate good St. Anne shall want for nothing, either in this life or the next." Abbot TrithemiusI admonish you to venerate and praise my dear mother.