ABSTRACT
Explaining St. Anne’s absence from Scripture, Canon Philip Hariz declared in 1741 that it was precisely in order to honor her more that the Evangelists did not discuss her-“Anne becomes more through exactly this silence,” because “what comes under the pen and is described, that has number and weight; but what falls outside of the pen is immeasurable.”1 At the time he was writing, St. Anne was the subject of pens, brushes, and chisels across the Catholic areas of the Holy Roman Empire, an inspiration for devotion, a model for the devout, and a means of confirming the consistency of Catholicism across the centuries.2
