The Scriptures tell us nothing about the parents of the Virgin Mother, not even their names. An early but unreliable document, known as the Proto-Gospel (or Proto-Evangelion) of James, calls them Ann and Joachim, by which names they are customarily known. Our only real information about them, however, is an inference from the kind of daughter they reared.
[NOTE: Those who would like to read the Proto-Evangelion will find it at https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0847.htm.]
See alsoBiography in The Catholic Encyclopedia < https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01538a.htm
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