Believe it or not, the story is repeated after 2,000 years later. There was no Joseph though. I can imagine the surprise of many.
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Virgin Mary gave birth to 7.7 pound baby Jesus on Christmas Day. In Peru. Really. Twenty-year-old Virgen Maria Huarcaya delivered her newborn son, Jesus Emanuel, in the early hours of Christmas in Peru's capital of Lima, Reuters reported. The baby's father, Adolfo Jorge Huamani, is a carpenter, causing religious Peruvians to compare the 24-year-old to Mary's Biblical husband Joseph, who was a carpenter as well. Though the boy wasn't placed in a manger - he stuck around in a ward at the city's central maternity hospital - he's got Peruvians gabbing about his birth, Reuters reported. "Two thousand years later the story of Bethlehem is relived," read a headline about the birth in El Comercio, Peru's main newspaper.... |