In other words, I tell him: Pray for this problem!” he added. After this address, the statues of “Sleeping St. Joseph” saw an explosion in popularity. In June 2015, Catholic San Francisco ...

When Pope Francis came in January this year, he talked about how he has a statue of a sleeping St. Joseph. He said that whenever he has something he wants done and needs Joseph's intercession ...

Immediately, to follow the Pope’s example, the faithful began looking for a “Sleeping St. Joseph” statue to go and do likewise. (Find options at EWTN Religious Catalogue.) At the beginning ...

Amazon will sell you a whole St. Joseph Home Selling Kit for less than $10. A garden spade is not included. The statue-burying tradition likely started with buyers, not sellers: nuns during the ...

As Snopes notes, no one knows exactly when the custom of using a St. Joseph statue to help sell a home became popular, but he seems to have reached widespread use in the U.S. around 1990 ...

ST. PAUL, Minnesota — The folklore is well known: Need to sell a house? Bury a statue of St. Joseph in the yard. Maybe wrapped in a cloth. But it must be upside down, near the “For Sale ...

When they decided to list it on the market last year, Kathy Mirabelli recalled that her mother had told her about the ritual of burying a St. Joseph's statue upside down in the yard to ensure a ...

"The hands were cut off," Sister Guillet said, adding that the damage to that statue has not been repaired. The church has suffered from minor vandalism over the years, but nothing like the damage ...