Peru Christmas baby named Jesus

by Mary Richard | December 26, 2008 at 05:15 pm
288 views | 9 Recommendations | 3 comments

Photos

Baby Jesus Emanuel

Baby Jesus Emanuel

see larger image

uploaded by Mary Richard

A Peruvian woman called Virgen Maria, who is married to a carpenter, has named her son Jesus Emanuel after giving birth on Christmas Day.

Twenty-year-old Virgen Maria Huarcaya Palomino had not been due to give birth on Thursday, but went into labour early and underwent a Caesarean operation.

Her husband, who shares the same profession as Saint Joseph, is in fact called Adolfo Jorge Huaman.  He said the couple had been planning to name their son after a football player.  "But thanks to a happy coincidence this is how things ended up," he said.

Baby Jesus was born at 0220 local time (0720 GMT) on 25 December at the National Perinatal Institute in Lima and weighed 3.32kg.

Advertisement
recommend Sign In or Join to post comments
0
158

Good story.  If only the father was the Spanish form of Joseph.

0
Uwe Paschen

Adolfo? and Jesus? two names with very opposite historical powerful figures. I would not dare name my child either no matter what day they may be born.

0
Carlitos

Esperemos que no se aparezca un pilatos nomas.

What is NowPublic?

NowPublic lets people work together to cover news events around the world.

Find out more

Crowd Power

158
First Flagged at 7:04 PM, Dec 26, 2008 by 158
These members have powered this story:

Most Recommended Stories in Strange

Recommendations (9)

Most recently recommended by:
 

closeSign in to NowPublic

is reporting from