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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Saint Anne was the mother of Our Lady, Mary and the grandmother of Jesus Christ. The wife of Saint Joachim. She is believed to have given Mary to the service of the Temple when the girl was three years old. Not much is known about Saint Anne (Hannah in Hebrew) she is the patron saint of Christian mothers and of women in labor. More info here...
Octavius description is excellent.
Various books of the NT were thrown out, when they had a think about it, some because they obviously were nt written by the people creditted (=pseudepigrapha), and some because erm they werent true.....
and they can be found at;
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/6/5/1/6516/6516.txt
or thereabouts, and v1 of the Gospel of Mary gives you the names of her parents. Enjoy