“It is an indicator of what’s out there.” The Saint Jude Shop and other Catholic supply stores also sell pre-packaged St. Joseph kits for $7 to $9. The kits typically come with a standard 4 ...

My fascination with St. Joseph begins with a story ... it was Leo XIII who proclaimed Joseph patron of the universal church, a sort of culmination of the saint’s earlier patronage of individual ...

Commemorating the Feast of St. Joseph March 19 is a deep-rooted community ... who raised their glasses to honor the patron saint of families. From the left, Brian Minardo, Joseph Romagnolo III ...

St Joseph, the husband of Mary ... irreplaceable domestic intangibles and intimacies of family life. As the patron saint of fathers, Joseph’s example heralds the ideal of fatherhood: faithful, ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The patron saint of firefighters will now watch over parishioners of St. Joseph’s R.C. Church in Rosebank, hopefully soon followed by the patron saint of police officers.

Devotion to him does not end there. St. Joseph is the patron of laborers, carpenters, fathers, the unemployed, expectant mothers, families, immigrants, and travelers. Declared patron of the ...

and his purpose was to help the house sell faster. In the Catholic tradition, St. Joseph is the patron saint of workers and ...

He is also the patron saint of the dying because Jesus and Mary were at his death bed. On March 19th a table full of good Italian food honoring St. Joseph is a traditional Sicilian custom.

The day celebrates the life of St. Joseph, "the spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, foster father of Jesus Christ, and patron of the universal ... world than any other saint, except, of course ...

All of us had a patron saint or two when we were named at birth. I was doubly blessed with two patron saints, one being St. Joseph, the other being St. Paul, whereas brothers Tom and Lou didn’t have ...