prophetess Anna

The other window is by Herbert Bryans and shows the prophetess Anna.

Along with Simeon, the prophetess Anna is commemorated on February 3 in the Byzantine rite of the Catholic Church.

In the 16th century, the Reformation in Europe allowed more women to add their voices, including the English writers Jane Anger, Aemilia Lanyer, and the prophetess Anna Trapnell.

The elderly prophetess Anna was also in the Temple, and offered prayers and praise to God for Jesus, and spoke to everyone there of His importance to redemption in Jerusalem ().

A VOCATION VIEW: Like Simeon and the prophetess Anna, who served God day and night in His temple, will you dare bear radical witness to Christ Jesus as His priest, consecrated brother or sister?

Returning to Montrigone, the Simeon is an excellent figure, and the Virgin is fairly good, but the prophetess Anna, who stands just behind her, is by far the most interesting in the group, and is alone enough to make me feel sure that Tabachetti gave more or less help here, as he had done years before at Orta.

Howard V. Hong said Kierkegaard had "seeds for more than six discourses in mind; Three on Peter's Denial of Christ, three on the Canaanite Woman, and two on suffering as guilty or innocent, as well as funeral addresses to the king's deceased valet and for the prophetess Anna."