Saint
Sovin
Saint named in the old calendars; the sources preserve few details about her.
Uncertain source. We are looking to verify this information as soon as we can.
- Era
- 1st century
Life
Sovin (Sobe) is, by a late Byzantine tradition, the sister of Saint Anne and the mother of Saint Elizabeth. The Gospel says only that Elizabeth was of the line of Aaron and a relative of Mary. The name Sobe first appears in writings of around the eighth century, by Hippolytus of Thebes, Andrew of Crete and Epiphanius the Monk, and later in Nicephorus Callistus. They relate that Matthan the priest, of Bethlehem, had three daughters: Mary, Sobe and Anne; Sobe, married in Bethlehem, bore Elizabeth. She has no feast of her own in the sources found.