St. Ann is the grandmother to Our Lord, and mother to Our Lady. St. Ann’s feast day is July 26th, preceded by a novena from July 17 – 25th
Fourteen years after Our Lord’s death, Saint Mary Magdalen, Saint Martha, Saint Lazarus, and the others of the little band of Christians who were piled into a boat without sails or oars and pushed out to sea to perish — in the persecution of the Christians …see more at Catholicism.org under the heading “Charlemagne and the Finding of the Body of St. Anne”