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Holy Kinship was a popular theme in religious art throughout Germany and the Low Countries especially during the late 15th and early 16th centuries. The Holy Kin were the extended family of Jesus descended from his maternal grandmother St. Anne. According to this tradition St. Anne the mother of the Virgin Mary was grandmother not just to Jesus but also to five of the twelve apostles: John the Evangelist James the Greater James the Less Simon and Jude.
