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ANNE2 (saint). Anne is the traditional name for the Virgin's mother. There is no scriptural or historical reference to the Virgin's parents; however, they are mentioned in the Apocryphal Gospels of Pseudo-Matthew, Protoevangelicon; the Legenda Aurea CCXXII gives a life of St. Anne.
St. Anne is the Virgin's mother in Chaucer's works. [Marie1]
The name occurs in final rhyming position, MLT 641; FrT 1613; SNP 70.
Jacobus de Voragine, no trans., in G. Ryan and H. Ripperger's edition; ibid., LA, ed. Th. Graesse, 934-935; The Middle English Stanzaic Versions of the Life of St. Anne, ed. R.E. Parker; "The Protoevangelion," Lost Books of the Bible, 24-37; M.V. Ronan, St. Anne: Her Cult and Her Shrines.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.
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