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Saint Joseph's Day, also called the Feast of Saint Joseph or the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, is in Western Christianity the principal feast day of Saint Joseph, husband of the Virgin Mary and legal father of Jesus Christ, celebrated on 19 March. It has the rank of a solemnity in the Catholic Church.
In the Catholic Church, the Feast of Saint Joseph (19 March) is a solemnity (first class if using the Tridentine calendar), and is transferred to another date if impeded (i.e., 19 March falling on Sunday or in Holy Week). [99] Joseph is remembered in the Church of England and the Episcopal Church on 19 March. [100] [101]
Saint-Joseph-des-Nations is a Roman Catholic Church located at 161 rue Saint-Maur in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. It was built between 1867 and 1874 in the Neo-Romanesque style by architect Theodore Ballu. The name of the church was chosen to set it apart from the other Paris churches named for Joseph, and to denote the role of the parish ...
Two convents servicing St. Veronica are Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matara and Sisters of St. Joseph Convent at St. Hugh of Cluny. In 1993, two nearby North Philadelphia parishes merged with St. Veronica: Our Lady of Pompeii Parish (Italian), founded in 1914 in Franklinville at Erie Street and North 6th, and St. Bonaventure Parish ...
The litany of Saint Joseph was sanctioned by Pope Pius X in 1909. After the usual petitions to the Holy Trinity and one to the Blessed Virgin, the litany is composed of twenty-five invocations expressing the virtues and dignities of Joseph. [6] Furthermore, Pius X composed a Prayer to Saint Joseph the Worker for the sanctification of labor. [7] [8]
The Church of St. Joseph of the Holy Family is a Black Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of New York, located at 401 West 125th Street at Morningside Avenue in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is the oldest existing church in Harlem and above 44th Street in Manhattan. [1]
St. Joseph's Parish was founded by Bishop John Dubois in 1829. [3] At the time St. Joseph's Parish began, the population of New York, numbering 203,000, was concentrated in the southern half of Manhattan. Early church records indicate that St. Joseph's first congregants were predominantly Irish-Americans.
The Espousals of the Blessed Virgin Mary or Marriage of the Virgin Mary is a Christian feast that is celebrated by certain communities within the Catholic Church, such as the Oblates of Saint Joseph. It was formerly generally observed on January 23, but was removed from many local calendars by the Sacred Congregation of Rites .