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> Devotion to St Anne tends to be late medieval rather than post-Tridentine
> and is associated with the popularisation of the doctrine of the
> Immaculate
> Conception. In fact I have a feeling the Catholic church of the
> Counter-Reformation tended to downplay her. Sources for her life are all
> apocryphal - the Protevangelium of James, the Gospel According to the
> Pseudo-Matthew and later developments of these in De Voragine's Golden
> Legend.
>
Also remember that many of the apocryphal tales were spread through Ireland
and Britain via Irish versions. Fortunately, a large number of the most
popular have been edited, translated and published along with very
insightful notes in _Irish Biblical Apocrapha: Selected Texts in
Translation_ Maire Herbert (Editor) Martin McNamara (Editor) Hardcover,
230pp. ISBN: 056709524X Pub. Date: September 1989
Francine Nicholson
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