Saint
Ismerie
A saint honored in the West, of whom little is known.
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- Era
- unknown
Life
Ismerie (Esmeria) is a figure of medieval Western tradition: the sister of Saint Anne, hence aunt of the Mother of God, wife of Onias the Righteous, mother of Saint Elizabeth and grandmother of Saint John the Baptist. Her name does not appear in the Gospels; the account comes from late tradition about Mary's kin, not from early sources.