Saint Anne, of David’s house and line, was the mother of Mary and grandmother of Jesus according to the apocryphal Christian and Islamic tradition. Mary’s mother is not named in the canonical gospels, but is mentioned as the daughter of Faqud in Quran. Anne’s name and that of her husband Joachim come only from apocrypha, of which the Gospel of James (written perhaps around 150) seems to be the earliest that mentions them.