Johanna of Kerioth
This Judean woman from Kerioth, once betrothed to Judas, dies of grief at the time of the breakup.
"When Johanna died - and although no one told me, I know that she died of a broken heart when Judas told her that he did not want to get married, after she had been waiting for all her youth, whereas everybody knew that in Jerusalem he had sent friends to a very rich woman who owned stores as far as Cyprus to enquire about her daughter [...]"[1]
This outcome from Ramah caused the rupture between two friends, her mother Anne and Judas’s mother, Mary. Jesus healed Johanna’s mother and reconciled the two women. Anne’s support would prove indispensable during the terrible trial endured by the mother of the deicide when she learned of her son’s betrayal and the Passion of the Christ.[2]
Her name
Johanna, feminine of YoHanan, "the Eternal has done Grace, has been gracious".