On this day, the more successful Saint Anne, the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is celebrated. Saint Anne is the daughter of the priest Matan, of the tribe of Levi, and Mary of Bethlehem. Her parents had two more daughters: Maria, who married in Bethlehem and gave birth to Salome, and Sovia, who also married in Bethlehem and gave birth to Elizabeth, the mother of Saint John the Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord. She lived with her husband Joachim for 50 years without children. And then God answered their fervent prayers and sent them the archangel Gabriel who announced to Saint Anne that she would give birth to a daughter. And Anna, although an old woman, immediately conceived and indeed gave birth to a daughter, and what a daughter - the Blessed Virgin Mary. She rested in the Lord when she was 79 years old.

Holy Olympiad and Eupraxia.