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VIRG AND MARY
As Christmas approached, the teacher told her elementary school class the story of the incarnation of Jesus Christ. The teacher later quizzed her students as to the name of the mother of Jesus. The children raised their hands, the teacher called on one of the children, and a little girl said that her name was Mary. The teacher then asked the children to tell her the name of Mary’s husband and the earthly “step- father” of Jesus. The hands went up, and the teacher called on one of the boys. The boy told the teacher that the man’s name was Virg. Confused, the teacher asked the boy how he had arrived at the name Virg. The boy explained, “Everybody knows that the parents’ names were Virg and Mary.”