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Saint Joachim of Ithaca (Greek: Άγιος Ιωακείμ εξ Ιθάκης) also known as Saint Joachim of Vatopaedi or Saint Papoulakis was born in 1786 as Ioannis Patrikios near Polyktoria, a region in the island of Ithaca, Greece, where his father, Angelos Patrikios, was based as a Captain. Agne, his mother, was a devout Orthodox Christian ...
Saint Joachim. In medieval art, he often wears a conical Jewish hat. He is often treated as a saint, with a halo, but in the Latin Church, there was some awareness that he had quite likely died too soon to be counted as a Christian. Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate was a popular subject in artistic renditions of the life of the Virgin.
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Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate is a narrative of the parents of the Virgin Mary, Joachim and Anne meeting at the Golden Gate of Jerusalem, upon learning that she will bear a child. It is not in the New Testament , but is in the Protoevangelium of James and other apocryphal accounts; the narrative was tolerated by the church.
Credit line: Rosenwald Collection: References: Bartsch's Le Peintre Graveur, 96 (Grav.Bois) Albrecht Dürer: Complete woodcuts, 130; Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the British Museum, Vol. 1, C. D. 119
Saint Joachim, Saint-Joachim or St. Joachim may refer to: Joachim, in Christianity, the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus; Joachim of Ithaca (1786–1868), Greek saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church; Joachim of Korsun, first bishop of Novgorod the Great, saint of the Russian Orthodox Church; Saint-Joachim, a commune in France