New Testament apocrypha people

mother of Virgin Mary in Christian and Islamic traditions; unnamed in the New Testament or Quran

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.

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)