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.
she became a saint in the year 1584
The early Christian community declared her as a saint. There was no process of canonization in place at the time.
Saint Anne was declared a saint in 1584. She is the grandmother of Jesus Christ as her daughter was Mary.
Anne did not become a saint until she died at a VERY old age.
When Anne died there was no canonization process in place. She was declared a saint by the early Christian community, probably some time in the early first century AD.
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.
We do not know who the father of St. Anne was.
St. Joachim was Anne's husband.
Saint Zita
St. Jude was not declared a saint by a pope. The canonization process did not exist at the time. he was declared a saint by the early Church because of his martyrdom.
Anne, the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was declared a saint by the early Christians long before the canonization process was instituted. She was honored as a saint primarily by the eastern churches but her cultus extended to the whole Church in 1584 under Pope Gregory XIII.
St. Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary.
St. Anne, St. Joachim, St. Elizabeth, St. Zachariah, The Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph, and a number of others all died natural deaths and were not martyrs. All died in the first century A.D. but the dates are not certain.