saint joachim immediately went to jerusalem where he met his wife anna, as the angel had predicted to him. i did not tell each other everything that he had proclaimed, and then nazareth returned home after the due date, the righteous anna gave birth to a daughter, who named mary as the angel commanded her on the page of scripture, we find other cases when pious spouses waited a long time for the appearance of their primacy. this is also the old testament feast of abraham, who, with great hope in the lord, was waiting for his birth. own son. isaac, because of his firm faith , was honored with great promises from god, and rightly so, zechariah or the advice of the parents of st. john the baptist who, for his patience and piety. or become the parents of the greatest prophet in all these cases. we see that sincere faith, patience and unquenchable hope, parents were necessarily rewarded from the lord with a great blessing. what does today's holiday tell us modern people? of course, the fact that children are a blessing of god for the family and the most important, constituting the rightnes