Saint Joseph 
 
     

 

 

 
 

Saint Joseph

19 March, Saint Joseph


Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary and foster father to Jesus, Joseph was, according to the New Testament, betrothed to Mary at the time of the Annunciation. Although descended from David, the king of Jews, he was poor and a carpenter by trade. Saint Matthew's Gospel describes him as a just man and records how his initial distress at Mary's pregnancy was dispelled by an angelic vision; and it tells of how, after a warning in a dream, he took his family to Egypt to escape Herod's persecution. After the king's death, and again in response to a dream, Joseph returned to Israel. Here, fearing Herod's son, Archelaus, who reigned in Judea, he settled in Nazareth in Galilee.

His last appearance in the New Testament is when he and Mary, on their way back from celebrating the Passover at Jerusalem, are forced to return to the city to find the 12 year-old Jesus who was preaching in the Temple. Most authorities believe that Joseph was dead by the time of the Crucifixion.

From the book "Saints, over 15o Patron Saints for Today" E.H.   

The church honors the Saints who are already with the Lord in Heaven because they inspire us by the good example of their lives, and because we ask them to pray for us.

We Honor the Saints when we try to be like them and when we pray to them. They pray for us in heaven.

From the "book of  Saints. By F.Lovasik.

 
 
 
 

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