Sobe (sister of Saint Anne)
Sobe, also known as Sovin, was the mother of
The Bible records only that Elizabeth was a descendant of
Andronicus.[7]
All recount essentially the same passage, given by the last two as follows:
There were three sisters of
The 19th-century mystic Anne Catherine Emmerich claims that according to her visions (which give a detailed genealogy of Mary), Sobe was a sister of Anne, but the mother of Elizabeth was Emerentia, Sobe and Anne's maternal aunt.[9]
See also
References
- ^ Catholic Encyclopedia (1909), "Elizabeth".
- ^ Luke 1:5,36
- ISBN 9781960069603.
- ^ PG 97.1325
- ^ PG 120.189
- Nicephorus Callistus, Historia ecclesiastica, 2.3)
- ^ PG 133.860
- ^ Translation from Charles Wheatly, A Rational Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer, 1794, p. 63.
- ^ Anne Catherine Emmerich, The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, ch. 1.