Turns out, it was a statue of St. Joseph (with, presumably, a young Jesus, since the Joseph we're talking about here was that ...

Today’s home-sale checklist: Clean the yard, spruce up the interior, plant flowers, rearrange the furniture and bury a statue of St. Joseph in the front yard. Bury a statue of St. Joseph?

They are part of “home selling kits” that consist of a crudely crafted St. Joseph statue and a card with a specific prayer. Burying the statue upside down, some Catholics believe, will help ...

Statues of St. Joseph, very much a celebrity to us, are displayed prominently on front lawns and in storefront windows. To mark this day, my family and neighbors would gather at a local Bronx ...

A statue of St. Joseph is placed on the top tier to honor the saint of the day. He is represented alone or holding the Christ Child. Many altars have extra tables added to form a cross and to hold ...

families in Sicily began making a "St. Joseph Table," which featured "three tiers of various types of breads, pastas, thick vegetable soups, olives, figs, desserts, flowers and a statue or image ...

Tanjung Kling, Melaka The Chapel of St Joseph came alive with joy and devotion on May 1. The celebration began at 2.15pm with ...

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 ...