[Magdalen] Salve Regina.

[Jay Weigel]

Grace, I believe those come from tradition and an extra-canonical Gospel of
Mary (not the one in the New New Testament edited by Colin Woodard, which
is of Mary Magdalene) which is often cited in Orthodox tradition. There are
a number of Orthodox churches named for Sts. Joachim and Anna, including
mine. I have a very sweet icon of the family which shows Mary as a young
child, perhaps a toddler, with her parents. Traditionally it is said that
the parents, being elderly and not well, realized that she and Joachim
could not raise Mary to adulthood and so brought her to the Temple at the
age of either three or six to be raised there, either to be a consecrated
virgin or until she could be betrothed to a suitable man. Of course God and
the Angel Gabriel had other plans for her :-)

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 7:19 AM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I’m not sure I ever connected this with Mary, though I can see how you
> could.
> And while we’re at it, where did the names of her parents—Anna and
> Joachim—come from? The only Anna I can think of was the elderly woman in
> the temple with Simeon who recognized Jesus as the Messiah...
>
> > On Aug 19, 2019, at 4:57 AM, Simon Kershaw <simon at kershaw.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2019-08-16 19:22, ME Michaud wrote:
> >> I saw a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath her feet, and
> a
> >> crown of stars on her  head.
> >
> > And ...?
> >
> > Only by very belatedly reading back into the text can this been seen as
> being about Mary.
> >
> > simon
> >
> > --
> > Simon Kershaw
> > simon at kershaw.org.uk
> > St Ives, Cambridgeshire
>