The Limits of the Record
The names of the Theotokos's own parents, Joachim and Anna, come not from the canonical gospels — which do not name Mary's mother — but from the apocryphal Gospel of James (the Protoevangelium of James), an account of the mid-second century. Anna herself is not named in the New Testament, and the tradition concerning her own parents is later still and disputed. A fifteenth-century Western source named Anna's parents, but that genealogy was already regarded as spurious by the early twentieth century, and no early Christian tradition names Anna's mother.
Accordingly, the figure commemorated here is identified by her relationship — mother of Saint Anna, grandmother of the Theotokos — rather than by any secure biographical account. The Region of Origin given in the record, Palestine and the Holy Land, follows from that family setting. No dates, events, or further details are asserted, because the record carries none.