Peruvian Jesus born to Virgin Mary on Christmas
Mon Dec 29, 10:02 am ET Reuters
LIMA (Reuters) – Virgin Mary, a 20-year-old Peruvian woman, gave birth to a baby boy on Christmas day and named him Jesus, Peru's state news agency said on Friday.
The baby's father, Adolfo Jorge Huamani, 24, is a carpenter. Religious Peruvians compared him to Joseph the Carpenter in the Bible.
"Two thousand years later the story of Bethlehem is relived," read the headline about the birth in El Comercio, the main newspaper in Peru, a predominantly Catholic country.
The mother, Virgen Maria Huarcaya, delivered the 7.7 pound (3.5 kg) boy, Jesus Emanuel, in the early hours of Christmas at the central maternity hospital in Lima, the capital.
"A few days ago we had decided to name my son after a professional soccer player," the father said. "But thanks to a happy coincidence this is how things ended up."
(Reporting by Terry Wade; Editing by Vicki Allen)
So try to digest this. By coincidence, her name is Mary. He is a carpenter. And their son was born on Christmas.
I mean, sure why not name him Jesus Emanuel? I hope the children in Peru are kinder than the children in the States. That poor little guy would be in for some serious harassment don't you think? I think maybe they should have stuck with their original plan and named him after a soccer player but that's just my take. I'd love to know how you feel about it!
Writer’s Workshop: Passing The Baton
3 months ago
Posts
3 comments:
Naming a child is serious business...let's hope his classmates do not tease him...
I'm with you on that! I've seen some pretty strange names, the most recent being to a Canadian-Asian couple whose last name was Dong....yep you likely guessed it, they named their baby boy Ding !!!
Jesus isn't all that uncommon a name in a lot of Hispanic cultures, so he might not get teased too much. Now, his mom being named Virgin (or Virgen... it's spelled both ways in the article)... that's the part that weirds me out.
Post a Comment