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 ...

Like many Italian-Americans ... 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 a miracle.

St. Joseph altars had been a way to celebrate the feast day for three decades when ... “the homes of several prominent members of the Italian congregation in Gretna and Harvey to bless the ...

St. Patrick’s Day has transcended its Irish Catholic origins, and now even secular revelers don their green clothes and ...

A full week of St. Joseph ... the feast day on Wednesday. You may have already caught some of the beautiful altars around New Orleans. Sunday morning, The Italian American St. Joseph Society ...

Pope Pius XII instituted the feast of St. Joseph the Worker on May 1 ... In his address to the Catholic Association of Italian Workers on that day in 1955, Pius XII said: “There could not ...

Zeppole are cream-filled Italian ... Day? St. Joseph's Day is celebrated on March 19 in Rhode Island is all about zeppole, a pastry some say is in the shape of St. Joseph’s hammer. It's his ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Because St. Joseph’s day falls in the season of Lent, the feast includes meals without meat. This recipe uses traditional Italian spaghetti with eggs as the protein.