ST. JOSEPH FOR CHILDREN

For All Children--------The Patronage and Feasts of St. Joseph

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Words of St. Thomas Aquinas About
the Patronage of St. Joseph

"Some Saints are privileged to extend to us their patronage with particular efficacy in certain needs, but not in others; but our holy patron St. Joseph has the power to assist us in all cases, in every necessity, in every undertaking."

Officially St. Joseph is the Patron for Chastity, of Fathers, Laborers, the Dying, and Holy Mother Church.

The Feasts of St. Joseph:

The primary Feast of St. Joseph is March 19 because it is believed that his death occurred on that date.
This Feast was fixed in the 15th century and was extended to the whole Church by Pope Gregory XV in 1621.

On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 1870, Pope Pius IX ordered that St. Joseph's Feast day was to be a double of the first class.

Holy Mother Church dedicates the entire month of March to St. Joseph, as well as the First Wednesday of every month.

May 1 was established as the Feast of St. Joseph the Workman by Pope Pius XII in 1955, chosen to coincide with Labor days in many nations.