It is likely that Anne never lived in Bethlehem.
Anne Lyne (Line) was born about the year 1565 at Dunmow, Essex, England as Anne Higham.
We do not know when Anne died but it would have been much earlier than 47AD.
St. Anne would have been declared a saint by the early Christian community during the earliest years of the Church. The canonization process was not instituted until over 1000 years later.
Devotion to Saint Anne is pre-congregational - long before the official canonization process was instituted . She has been considered a saint since the earliest days of the Church. Her cult was extended to the whole Church in 1584.
74,982 is the population of Bethlehem
There is no mention of Anne in the Bible but tradition tells us that she was the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary. No other information, including the year when she died, is known.
There is no record of the date when St. Anne was born. What little we know about her is through tradition. She was probably born about the year 50 BC.
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Joseph, or Saint Joseph, was born in Bethlehem. He was born around the year 90 BC although an exact date is unknown.
He was born about the year AD1 and died about the year AD64.
It is celebrated on July 26 every year, including 1976.
We have no historical information about Anne. All we know is based on tradition. However, it is quite probable that Anne was from the town of Nazareth.Saint Anne was the Mother of Our most Holy Virgin Mary she was born most likely between 50bc and 30bc and she lived most likely in the city of Nazereth...