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.

March 19 is the Feast of St. Joseph ... a statue or image of St. Joseph on the top tier," said Carusi. It is also a custom to eat Italian pastries on St. Joseph's Day. " ...

The annual Feast of St. Joseph returned to Federal Hill on Saturday. The celebration was moved from its traditional date on ...

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 ...

March 19th was St. Joseph's Day, a Christian holiday honoring the feast day of the husband of the Virgin Mary. It coincides with when Italians also celebrate Father's Day. A group of Italian ...

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 ...