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In 1955, Pope Pius XII introduced in its place the feast of Saint Joseph the Worker on 1 May in the General Roman Calendar as an ecclesiasical counterpart to the International Workers' Day on the same day. This reflects Saint Joseph's status as patron of workers. Pius XII established the feast both to honor Saint Joseph, and to make people ...
Saint Joseph's Day is the Patronal Feast day for Poland as well as for Canada, persons named Joseph, Josephine, etc., for religious institutes, schools and parishes bearing his name, and for carpenters. It is also Father's Day in some Catholic countries, mainly Spain, Portugal, and Italy. It is not a holy day of obligation for Catholics in the ...
The Calendar of the Church Year is the liturgical calendar found in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and in Lesser Feasts and Fasts, with additions made at recent General Conventions. The veneration of saints in the Episcopal Church (United States) is a continuation of an ancient tradition from the early Church which honors important and ...
In the liturgical calendar of the Roman Rite, a solemnity is a feast day of the highest rank celebrating a mystery of faith such as the Trinity, an event in the life of Jesus, his mother Mary, his earthly father Joseph, or another important saint. The observance begins with the vigil on the evening before the actual date of the feast.
1 May: Saint Joseph the Worker – optional memorial; 2 May: Saint Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church – memorial; 3 May: Saints Philip and James, Apostles – feast; 10 May: Saint John of Ávila, Priest and Doctor of the Church – optional memorial a; 12 May: Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Martyrs – optional memorial
19 March: Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Titular and Principal Patron of the Congregation of St. Joseph – Solemnity; 1 May: Saint Joseph the Worker – Feast; 18 May: Saint Leonardo Murialdo, priest and founder of the congregation – Solemnity; Oratorians. 16 January: Saint Joseph Vaz, priest – Optional Memorial
St. Joseph Cathedral (Buffalo, New York) / 42.8828°N 78.8782°W / 42.8828; -78.8782. Saint Joseph Cathedral is located at 50 Franklin Street in downtown Buffalo, New York within the Joseph Ellicott Historic District, and is currently the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo .
Miniature in the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany, 1503–1508, by Jean Bourdichon. The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph.The subject became popular in art from the 1490s on, but veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who founded a confraternity.