Brewer's: Joachim

(St.). The father of the Virgin Mary. Generally represented as an old man carrying in a basket two turtle-doves, in allusion to the offering made for the purification of his daughter. His wife was St. Anne, of St. Anna.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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