Saint Joachim ("he whom YHWH has set up", Hebrew: יהוֹיָקִים, Greek Ἰωακείμ) was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and therefore's ascribed the title of "forebearer of God", in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican traditions. The story of Sts. Joachim and Anne appears in the apocryphal Gospel of James. The canonical Gospel accounts in the New Testament don't… (More on Joachim)