Infancy gospels

Joachim was, according to Christian Sacred tradition, the husband of Saint Anne, the father of Mary and grandfather of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Gospel of James, part of the New Testament apocrypha. His feast day is 26 July, a date shared with Saint Anne.

apocryphal Gospel

apocryphal gospel on the childhood of Jesus

non-canonical infancy gospel

New Testament apocryphal writing concerning the infancy of Jesus

compilation of traditions concerning the family of Jesus; probably composed in Byzantine Egypt in Greek in the late 6th – early 7th century; survives in Coptic and Arabic; supports the perpetual virginity of Mary

genre of Christian texts focusing on Jesus’s childhood

character that appears in the Gospel of James as an associate of the unnamed midwife at the Nativity of Jesus, regularly depicted with the midwife in Eastern Orthodox (Gospel of James)