Santa Ana is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, California, United States. Located in the Greater Los Angeles region of Southern California, the city's population was 310,227 at the 2020 census, making Santa Ana the second most populous city in Orange County, the 13th-most populous city in California, and the 64th densest large city in the United States. Santa Ana is a major regional economic and cultural hub for the Orange Coast.
Image: California Santora Building 20180915152902 (cropped)
Image: Santa Ana Station (cropped)
Image: Santa Ana City Hall (cropped)
Image: Walkers Orange County Theater (cropped)
According to apocrypha, as well as Christian and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the Bible's canonical gospels. In writing, Anne's name and that of her husband Joachim come only from New Testament apocrypha, of which the Gospel of James seems to be the earliest that mentions them.
The mother of Mary is mentioned but not named in the Quran.
Greek icon of Saint Anne with the Virgin, by Angelos Akotantos
Saint Anne with Mary as a child
Birth of St. Anne, by Adriaen van Overbeke (c. 1521–1525)
Feast of Saint Anne in Marsaskala Parish Church [fr], Marsaskala, Malta
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