<Tr> <Th> Attributes </Th> <Td> Lamb, doves, with Saint Anne or Mary </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Patronage </Th> <Td> Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, Dolores, Eastern Samar, fathers, grandparents, Fasnia (Tenerife) </Td> </Tr> <P> Joachim (/ ˈdʒoʊəkɪm /; "he whom Yahweh has set up", Hebrew: יְהוֹיָקִים ‬ Yəhôyāqîm, Greek Ἰωακείμ Iōākeím) was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus, according to the Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican traditions . The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the apocryphal Gospel of James . Joachim and Anne are not mentioned in the Bible . His feast day is 26 July . </P> <P> The genealogies of Jesus in Matthew and Luke do not explicitly name either of Mary's parents, although one can infer Heli to be Mary's father and that Heli has wrongly been called "Joachim": </P>

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