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.

AP/AFP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly Maddy prayed a 30-day novena to St. Joseph two years ago with a single intention in mind: that if it was his will, God give her a spouse.

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 ...

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 ...

Soon enough, if not already, fig cookies, lemons and fava beans will adorn pied St. Joseph Altars at local Catholic churches to celebrate the feast ... St. Joseph's Day. "The Italian connection ...

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 ...

In New Jersey, Italian bakeries are as common as forgetting to celebrate St. Joseph's Day. So, if you also missed out on the biblical figure's commemorative feast, read on. Need a break?