Joachim
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Saint Joachim was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and therefore is 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.
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