Mary’s parents are the first grandparents who had to deal with the challenges of buying both birthday and Christmas presents for their grandson, which was especially difficult with the lagging economy of the era. (Hanukkah wasn’t as commercialized then, so present giving for each day wasn’t as big a deal as it is now.)
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. (Kiefer)
Lessons: http://www.io.com/~kellywp/LesserFF/Jul/Parents.html
More info: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/44sr.htm
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