Senegalese football manager Joseph Koto: "I pray the rosary before competitions" During the Cosafa Cup final (1) in which Senegal lost to South Africa, Senegalese football manager Joseph Koto, coach of Senegal’s
in the Year of St. Joseph decreed by Pope Francis, the shrine was dedicated to the Most Chaste Heart of St. Joseph and, on March 21, 2021, to the United Hearts of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, in the presence [...] Our Lady of Valfleury (France) A French shrine dedicated to the United Hearts of Jesus, Mary and Joseph One day around Christmas time in the year 800, in central France (Massif Central region), a shepherd
March of Saint Joseph After the success of the "M" of Mary pilgrimage in France last year, a new pilgrimage to Saint Joseph is taking place this summer, called "The Great March of Saint Joseph". On June 7 [...] appeared on August 10-11, 1519, and later St. Joseph himself on June 7, 1660. This new pilgrimage was especially organized to celebrate the "Year of St. Joseph" launched by Pope Francis for 2021. The departure [...] “Saint Joseph is a very popular saint. People have a great love for him. He is a saint for everyone: married couples, families, the dying, workers... he’s a saint for everyday life. Saint Joseph leads us
June 7 – Apparition of Saint Joseph in Cotignac (France, 1660) Saint Joseph and the Miraculous Spring Compared to the numerous apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, there are relatively few approved [...] agony. At that point an older man suddenly appeared to him and said, “I am Joseph. Lift up the rock and you can drink.” Joseph was pointing to a large rock nearby, a rock that Ricard knew he couldn’t lift [...] The spring of St Joseph in Cotignac has been a pilgrimage site ever since, and a nearby shrine was eventually combined with a separate apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Joseph that occurred in
Feast of the Immaculate Conception Mary and Joseph’s first great trial was during the time of Advent During the period before the birth of Jesus, Mary and Joseph had to undergo a very painful trial. This [...] Christ’s birth, Mary, engaged to Joseph, was given to him as a wife. When she came to live in his home, at the end of the engagement period, she was already pregnant. Joseph noticed Mary’s condition without [...] conceived in her by the Lord God. Yet Joseph, like Mary, remained faithful to the divine will and kept Mary in his home. This first great trial between Mary and Joseph, in the early days of their common life
16 – Our Lady of Ostra Brama (Poland and Lithuania) - Saint Gertrude of Helfta "The Brothers of St Joseph taught us to love Our Lady" "My experience with Mary began when I was a child. I was born in a deeply [...] of my love for Mary. But my Marian devotion also grew greatly in the community of my parish, St Joseph’s Church (São José), where I was baptized, ordained a priest, and later ordained a bishop. I was 13 [...] when I entered the seminary. Marian devotion was deeply fostered there. It was the Brothers of St Joseph—founded by Father Murialdo—who taught us to love Our Lady. I owe my religious, sacerdotal and episcopal
June 7 – Apparition of Saint Joseph in Cotignac (France, 1660) King Louis XIV consecrated France to Saint Joseph Many know about "King Louis XIII’s Vow" to consecrate France to the Blessed Virgin in 1638 [...] kingdom to Saint Joseph, husband of Mary, on March 19, 1661, is a lesser known fact. Three days after assuming power, on March 12th, Louis XIV decided to establish a solemn feast of Saint Joseph (in those days [...] France to St Joseph, read by the king, took place on the morning of Saturday, March 19, 1661, in the Louvre Chapel. Until the French Revolution, the national consecration of France to Saint Joseph was marked
March 20 – Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Virgin Mary (Italy) Saint Joseph’s door and Mary’s door In chapter 32 of her Autobiography , Saint Teresa of Avila recounts the "vision of hell," which the Lord let [...] shine brightly." There we have it: God’s world is Joseph’s world. It has two doors: the first one, the front door or street door, is entrusted to Joseph. It allows us to leave a complicated, mixed-up, hostile [...] which Jesus enters the world, Mary’s door, which opens onto Heaven. Father André Doze Joseph Ombre du Père ("Joseph: God’s Shadow") - Éditions des Béatitudes
– Our Lady of the Rain (Italy, 1367) The house of Mary and Joseph, the school where everything began The simple life of Jesus, Mary and Joseph was so much like ours. Mary was a mother like our own mothers
March 19 – Saint Joseph, Husband of Mary Joseph also remained a virgin, out of consideration for Mary You say that Mary did not remain a virgin. I, on the contrary, wish to affirm something more radical—that [...] radical—that Joseph actually remained a virgin—and did so for Mary, so that a virgin Son could be born of a virgin marriage. Since in a holy man like Joseph there was no room for fornication, and since it is
