which features an icon, made by Elizabeth Bergeron and based on a drawing by Alexandre Sobolev, of St. Joseph holding the child Jesus from St. Joseph’s Oratory in Montréal, Canada. The ...

he added. After this address, the statues of “Sleeping St. Joseph” saw an explosion in popularity. In June 2015, Catholic San Francisco reported that icons of the snoozing saint were “flying ...

To her, and many others in the Mescalero Apache tribe in New Mexico who are members of St. Joseph Apache Mission ... it is a revered icon created by Franciscan friar Robert Lentz in 1989.