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Saint Joseph
Christian saint; husband of Mary and legal father of Jesus
This article is about the husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus. For other saints and uses, see Saint Joseph (disambiguation). For the Joseph of Genesis, see Joseph (Genesis).
Saint Joseph | |
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Saint Joseph with the Infant Jesus by Guido Reni, c. 1635 | |
| Venerated in | All Christian denominations that venerate saints |
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| Attributes | Carpenter's square or tools, holding the infant Jesus Christ, staff with lily blossoms, two turtle doves, and a rod of spikenard. |
| Patronage | Catholic Church, among others fathers, workers, carpenters, married people, persons living in exile, the sick and dying, for a happy death |
Joseph (Hebrew: יוסף, romanized: Yosef; Greek: Ἰωσήφ, romanized: Ioséph) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who, according to the canonical Gospels, was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.[2]
Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox C
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Joseph (Genesis)
Biblical figure, son of Jacob and Rachel
Joseph (; Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, romanized: Yōsēp̄, lit. 'He shall add')[a] is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis. He was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's twelfth named child and eleventh son). He is the founder of the Tribe of Joseph among the Israelites. His story functions as an explanation for Israel's residence in Egypt. He is the favourite son of the patriarch Jacob, and his envious brothers sell him into slavery in Biblical Egypt, where he eventually ends up incarcerated. After correctly interpreting the dreams of Pharaoh, however, he rises to second-in-command in Egypt and saves Egypt during a famine. Jacob's family travels to Egypt to escape the famine, and it is through him that they are given leave to settle in the Land of Goshen (the eastern part of the Nile Delta).
Scholars hold different opinions about the historical background of the Joseph story, as well as the date and development of its composition.[6] Some scholars
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The Hidden Life and History of St. Joseph
Some years ago I got an icon of the Holy Family done by an elderly Coptic nun (German by birth) who lives in a convent near the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. It depicts the flight into Egypt. St. Joseph stands in the center with the child Jesus on his shoulders with Mary at his right and a serving girl at the left. While looking at that icon recently I began to think of St. Joseph.
The Eastern Church has a long tradition of honoring St. Joseph in the liturgy but it was only from the early sixteenth-century that he was so honored in the Roman Rite. In fact, it was only in 1847 that Pope Pius IX extended the Solemnity of St. Joseph as a feast for the universal Church. It was St. John XXIII who inserted his name into the Canon of the Mass on the eve of the Second Vatican Council. That belated recognition of the spouse of the Virgin Mary, known in the Gospel as a just man (vir Justus) is emblematic of the self-effacing character of Joseph, who is never recorded as speaking in the Gospels. What we know of him is what we learn by indirection
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