Sts. Joachim and Anne

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🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Though they never appear in canonical Scripture, Sts. Joachim and Anne—the grandparents of Jesus—hold a place of great importance in the Church's tradition. Discover more about the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary in this episode of Catholic Saints with Mary McGeehan and Augustine Institute professor Dr. Carl Vennerstrom.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints.
0:07.7	This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute, an apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.
0:19.2	Hi, welcome to Catholic Saints. My name is Mary McGeehan, and I am joined with Dr. Carl Venstrom,
0:25.7	Professor here at the Gus Institute. Thanks for joining.
0:28.5	Very glad to be here.
0:29.8	We are diving into another episode of Catholic Saints where we're looking at the Saints for
0:34.5	inspiration for our lives, looking to them for wisdom and inspiration
0:39.4	for holiness today. So today we're going to talk about saints Joachim and Anne. Their feast day
0:45.1	is on July 26. What can you tell us about some biographical sketch of who these saints are?
0:53.2	What we know about them?
0:54.9	Yeah.
0:55.2	So these are the grandparents of Jesus, so the parents of Mary.
1:02.3	Okay.
1:03.3	Okay.
1:03.7	The Blessed Virgin.
1:05.0	And so we know about them.
1:07.9	If you've read the New Testament, you'll know that we don't know about them from the New Testament. St. Sturkeman and do not appear in the gospel narratives. But their sort of
1:20.9	first appearance in the tradition of the church is in a document called the Proto Evangelium of
1:27.1	James. So this is supposed to have been written by-evangelium of James.
1:28.1	This is supposed to have been written by James,
1:31.0	the cousin of Jesus.
1:34.9	And it describes their marriage and the circumstances
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