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Who Were Mary's Parents? The Blessed Virgin Mary's parents were St. Joachim and St. Anne. Are Mary's Parents Mentioned in the Bible? The identity of the Blessed Virgin Mary's parents as St. Joachim and St. Anne is not actually mentioned in the Bible, but Catholic tradition provides insights into the family Mary was born into.
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Dec 12, 2015 · Roman Catholicism assigns the names Anne and Joachim to the mother and father, respectively, of Mary, but even a source such as the website Catholic Online (http://www.catholic.org) says, "We have no historical evidence, however, of any elements of their lives, including their names.
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Jul 26, 2021 · By Ginny Kubitz Moyer July 26, 2021. Mary’s parents are St. Joachim and St. Anne. What we know about them comes from tradition and from apocryphal writings (writings that are in the style of sacred Scripture but are not believed to have been divinely inspired).
Mary's Parents: Anna and Joachim. The Scriptures do not mention the Virgin Mary’s parents, however we know from the tradition of the Church, and from certain Apocrypha that their names were Joachim and Anne, that they came from the Judah [1] tribe, and that they descended from the illustrious family of King David.
Mary's name in the original manuscripts of the New Testament was based on her original Aramaic name מרים, transliterated as Maryam or Mariam. The English name Mary comes from the Greek Μαρία , a shortened form of the name Μαριάμ .
Jun 21, 2021 · We do not know anything about Mary’s genealogy from Sacred Scripture. In fact, the Bible doesn’t even give us her parents’ names. Tradition, however, gives their names as Sts. Joachim and Anne.
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Saints Anne and Joachim (flourished 1st century bce, Palestine; Western feast day July 26, Eastern feast day July 25) were, according to tradition derived from certain apocryphal writings, the parents of the Virgin Mary. St. Anne is one of the patron saints of Brittany and Canada and of women in labour. As the grandparents of Jesus, Saints Anne and...
Information concerning their lives and names is found in the 2nd-century Protevangelium of James (“First Gospel of James”) and the 3rd-century Evangelium de nativitate Mariae (“Gospel of the Nativity of Mary”). According to these noncanonical sources, Anne (Hebrew: Ḥannah) was born in Bethlehem in Judaea. She married Joachim, and, although they shared a wealthy and devout life at Nazareth, they eventually lamented their childlessness. Joachim, reproached at the Temple for his sterility, retreated into the countryside to pray, while Anne, grieved by his disappearance and by her barrenness, solemnly promised God that, if given a child, she would dedicate it to the Lord’s service. Both received the vision of an angel, who announced that Anne would conceive and bear a most wondrous child. The couple rejoiced at the birth of their daughter, whom Anne named Mary. When the child was three years old, Joachim and Anne, in fulfillment of her divine promise, brought Mary to the Temple of Jerusalem, where they left her to be brought up.
The account of their lives startlingly parallels the Old Testament story of the barren Hannah and her conception of Samuel (1 Samuel 1); she also dedicated her child to the service of God.
Anne’s cult was fervent in the Eastern church as early as the 4th century, and many churches, the first dating from the 6th century, were built in her honour. In the early 8th century Pope Constantine probably introduced her devotion to Rome, while Joachim’s cult was introduced in the West in the 15th century. Anne became extremely popular in the Middle Ages and influenced such theologians as Jean de Gerson, Konrad Wimpinar, and Johann Eck. In response to attacks on her cult by Protestant reformers, devotion to St. Anne was further promoted by post-Reformation popes.
The Protevangelium became the foundation for establishing the liturgical feasts of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (September 8) and the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (December 8). The dedication of Mary at the Temple became so important in church doctrine that by 1585 Pope Sixtus V included in the Western church calendar the liturgical feast of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary (November 21). Although this festival originated early in the East, probably at Jerusalem in 543, its first Western observance was recorded in England in the 11th century.
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