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 ...

The statue of St. Joseph, a 17-year fixture at the entrance to Monroe’s St. Joseph Cemetery, was destroyed by last week’s storms. “We are devastated to report that our beloved carved statue ...

The Menomonie Police Department is asking for help in locating a church's missing statue.The statue sat atop a fountain in a small garden just outside the main entrance of St. Joseph's Church.The ...

Just before dawn on Sunday morning, St. Joseph Parish, the second-largest parish in the Archdioceses of Philadelphia, discovered that several religious statues at 338 Manor Avenue had been toppl ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Thursday, the Chippewa Area History Center oversaw the move of an 800-pound statue of St. Joseph from the hospital, which was located at 2661 County Highway I in Chippewa Falls, to the center.

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 ...