Therefore you must begin a more concise and dignified kind of speech with this boy, else we shall not get rid of him! You will have to begin to explain to him the prophets in a clear way, and yet examine how things go with the virgin Mary - the marvellous daughter of Joachim and Anna, who at the end bequeathed their considerable properties to the Temple when they died - or rather the Temple-authorities took them by force as unbequeathed property, and as compensation for the bringing up of the daughter Mary. – Three Days in the Temple, Chapter 3, Paragraph 12