In the context of Saint Anne (wall painting), explain the The iconography of Saint Anne and literary sources of the Iconography.
Canonical sources do not mention Saint Anne; instead, she is mentioned in the Gospel of James – part of the Biblical apocrypha from between the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE written in Greek and translated into many eastern and western languages. She also appears in the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and many other apocryphal texts. These texts describe events related to the birth and childhood of the Virgin Mary and are modelled on the Old Testament, in which the births of biblical patriarchs are described as the result of divine intervention to defeat women's infertility. Saint Anne and her husband, saint Joachim, a devout Jew from the family of David, were childless, which in the Jewish society of the time was seen as shameful. Thanks to prayers and the faith in God's power Anne has conceived and given birth to a daughter, who later became the mother to Jesus. Anna and Joachim were later called Theopatores - God's ancestors.
Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew Gospel of James Jesus Joachim Saint Anne saint Joachim Biblical apocrypha Old Testament