Anna
historical figure · 5 works · 6 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Dido's sister · Anna the prophetess · an aged widow and wife of one man · daughter of Phanuel · her sister · that aged woman
in the texts
Aeneid
Dido's sister and closest confidante, who encourages her love for Aeneas and later becomes her unwitting accomplice in death.
Yet Anna's mind knew not what web of death her sister wove by these strange rites, nor what such frenzy dares;
Brief bidding she addressed to Barce then, Sichaeus' nurse (her own lay dust and ashes in a lonely grave beside the Tyrian shore), “Go, nurse, and call my sister Anna!
when thus unto the ever-answering heart of her dear sister spoke the stricken Queen:
Stromata
Mother of Samuel, cited as an example of a request granted through mere thought.
For instance, to Anna, upon her merely thinking of the child, was granted the conception of Samuel.
De Carne Christi
The aged prophetess of the temple presentation narrative, referred to without being named directly.
Let that aged woman too keep silence, lest she bewitch the child.
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
Prophetess who recognized the infant Christ and is noted for her fasting.
On the threshold of the Gospel, Anna the prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, who both knew the infant Lord and prophesied many things about Him to those who awaited the redemption of Israel, after the distinguished title of an old and one-husbanded widowhood, is enriched by the testimony of fastings as well—showing in what offices it is fitting to attend upon the Church, and that by none is Christ be …
De Monogamia
Widow and prophetess at the temple who proclaims Christ, described as wife of one man