![]() ![]() It focuses on a figure little-studied in scholarship and examines the formation, establishment and promotion of an apocryphal saint who made her way to the pantheon of Orthodox saints. ![]() ![]() It was prompted by the need to enrich our knowledge of a female saint who had already been studied in the West but remained virtually unknown in Eastern Christendom. The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium is the first undertaking in Byzantine research to study the phenomenon of St Anna’s cult from the sixth to the fifteenth centuries. Mainland Greece (tenth to fifteenth century)Ĭhristological associations: Anna and Joachim and the MandylionĬhristological associations: Anna and Joachim, the Mandylion and the AnnunciationĤ The cult of St Anna in Byzantium: overview Glorification of Christ – incarnational role – healing qualitiesĬonstantinople (tenth to fourteenth century) The Marian cycle in the chapel of Joachim and Anna at Kızıl Çukur Southern Italy – crypt of St Christine (tenth century)Ĭappadocia (tenth to thirteenth century) – the earliest extensive Mariological cycle Martyria of various Annas in Constantinople: the Russian travellersĮgypt – Cathedral of Faras (eighth to tenth century) Histories: Anna and Iconophilia in Theophanes’s Chronographia and the Patria of ConstantinopleĬhurch calendars, hagiography and histories: women at the church of the Blachernaiĭemonstration of Orthodoxy: Annas in monasteries – the Synodikon of Orthodoxy The Dormition of St Anna and the feast of Sts Anna and Joachim Scholarly views on its development in Constantinople The Nativity of Mary: significance of the feast Scholarly views on the development of the feast The Conception of St Anna/the Kissing of Joachim and Anna: significance of the feast The relics in Constantinople in the sixteenth century: the Pammakaristos church The translation from Constantinople to Rome: scholarly views and evidence Third group: the relics in Constantinople and Rome – the Patria and scholarly views Justinian I, the Macedonian dynasty and St Annaįirst group: Palestine – St Anna’s relics in the Probatike The text of Theophanes Continuator revisited Imperial patronage after Justinian I in Constantinople and beyond: Basil I – Leo VI The Justinianic model of the Probatike in the post-sixth-century topography of Constantinople: the Pege, the Chalkoprateia and the Hodegetria The emerging cult of St Anna in Constantinople The church of Mary at the Probatike as Mary’s birthplace The Probatike and fifth-century ecclesiastical politics in Jerusalem 1 The emergence of the cult of St Anna in Jerusalem and Constantinople ![]()
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