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Pope Pius IX declared him to be both the patron and the protector of the Catholic Church, in addition to his patronages of the sick and of a holy death, due to the belief that he died in the presence of Jesus and Mary. Joseph has become patron of various dioceses and places. Being a patron saint of virgins, he is venerated as "most chaste".
Josephology is the theological study of Joseph, the husband of Mary, mother of Jesus. Records of devotions to Joseph go back to the year 800 and Doctors of the Church since Thomas Aquinas have written on the subject. [1] With the growth of Mariology, the theological study of Joseph also grew and in the 1950s specific centers for it were formed. [2]
Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel, 1303, The Rods Brought to the Temple. The Golden Legend, which derives its account from the much older Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, recounts how, when Mary was 14 and living in the Temple, the High Priest gathered all male descendants of David of marriageable age including Saint Joseph.
The History of Joseph the Carpenter (Historia Josephi Fabri Lignari) is a compilation of traditions concerning Mary (mother of Jesus), Joseph, and the Holy Family, probably composed in Byzantine Egypt in Greek in the late sixth or early seventh centuries, but surviving only in Coptic and Arabic language translation [1] (apart from several Greek papyrus fragments [2]).
On the left (towards the west) there is the chapel of Saint Joseph, Mary's husband, initially built as the tomb of two other female relatives of Baldwin II. [8] At the bottom of the staircase, on the eastern side of the church, there is the edicule that contains Mary's tomb. [8] There are also altars of the Greeks and Armenians in the east apse.
Heli (Greek: Ἠλί, romanized: Ēlí; Eli in the New American Standard Bible) is an individual mentioned in the Gospel of Luke as the grandfather of Jesus. In Luke's genealogy of Jesus, Heli is listed as the father of Joseph (the husband of Mary), and the son of Matthat (Greek: Μαθθάτ). Jesus was about thirty years old when he began his ...
From the the pulpit of Holy Redeemer Institutional Church of God in Christ, Bishop Sedgwick Daniels enraptured worshipers each Sunday with electrifying and uplifting sermons, often driving them to ...
Joseph XI. Son of Mary of Clopas; brother of Saint James the Less, and a relative of Jesus, because his mother was the sister of Mary, mother of Jesus; others think Joseph XI's mother Mary was the sister of Joseph, the bridegroom/husband of Mary, mother of Jesus. Matthew 13:55, 27:56; Mark 6:3, 15:40,47. [12]