March 19 is the Feast ... St. Joseph on the top tier," said Carusi. It is also a custom to eat Italian pastries on St. Joseph's Day. "Over the years, this tradition has become a living work of ...

St. Joseph altars had been a way to celebrate the feast day for three decades when ... tablecloth accented by gold ribbon in a setting of art, flowers, cakes and statues of Joseph and other ...

St. Joseph’s Day is, in Italy, also Father’s Day — which isn’t at all surprising as St. Joseph was, of course, the foster father of Jesus. This feast and festival — which always falls in ...

St Joseph's Day, otherwise known as the Feast of Saint Joseph, is observed by Christians in commemoration of Saint Joseph. Taking place during the period of Lent, the feast typically falls two ...

Also widely known as San Guiseppe, St. Joseph’s feast day celebrates food and giving food to the hungry; many Italian-Americans, especially Sicilians, observe the feast day. A story reveals that ...

it was good old-fashioned prayer that gave birth to this feast day. The nuns who educated me told tales of a drought that ravaged Sicily in the 1600s. Desperate, Sicilians beseeched St. Joseph for ...

Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA “When I was expecting my first child and experiencing difficulty, I asked St. Joseph for his intercession — my daughter was born on his feast day,” Pribaz told ...