The church earned basilica status after a five-year restoration project sharpened its beauty and made it earthquake-safe.

For the jubilee year, the relics of St. Joseph’s cloak and Our Lady’s veil were on display inside St. Joseph al Trionfale for public veneration for four days from March 16–19.

Immediately, to follow the Pope’s example, the faithful began looking for a “Sleeping St. Joseph” statue to go and do likewise. (Find options at EWTN Religious Catalogue.) ...

Francis has a great devotion for St. Joseph and even keeps a statuette of the saint in a marble-topped dark wooden chest of drawers just outside his room (Room 201) in St. Martha's House. The Pope ...

The cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor honored the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with two new statues that were unveiled in his honor on Tuesday.Martin K ...

Reflecting on the beloved Saint, the Pope reminded them he himself keeps a 'sleeping St. Joseph' statue in his room. "One of the striking things about the Holy Spouse of Mary is the generous faith ...

The Chippewa Area History Center has received a donation of dozens of historical items from HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital, including the large statue of St. Joseph which sat in the ...

Apr. 20—Two statues at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 321 N. Virginia St., were found toppled and damaged Friday morning. A statue of the Virgin Mary, which members say is more than 100 years old ...

An unhinged man toppled a Jesus statue in a rampage that caused $4,000 in damages — after he was caught sleeping in a Manhattan church, cops and a parish worker said.

A statue of St. Joseph is displayed at the rear of the hospital. A sign on the statue’s base reads: “This statue of St. Joseph was removed from the old Nazareth Home in 1973.

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, “with ...