LIMA – 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."
Yes, just like the real Jesus. Well, except this kid wasn't born in a manger. And it is unlikely that Mary and Joseph ever considered naming Christ after a soccer star. And based on the stories in the bible, Jesus Christ wasn't born in December, it was actually the spring. Some pope several centruies back decided he wasn't having much competing against Pagan holidays, so he placed Christmas smack in the middle of the biggest Pagan holiday festival. But other than that, he's just like the original. But based on Isreal today, I'd avoid Peru in a couple thousand years just to be safe.
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