St. Joseph's Church (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
A number of churches and basilicas are named after Saint Joseph. Cathedrals are listed separately at St. Joseph's Cathedral. Notable churches include: Belarus *St. Joseph Church, Minsk Bosnia and Herzegovina *Saint Joseph's Church, Sarajevo Canada *Saint Joseph's Oratory, Montréal *St. Joseph (Ottawa) Cambodia *St Joseph's Church, Phnom Penh China *St. Joseph's Church, Beijing *St. Joseph's Church, Jinan *Saint Joseph's Church, Shanghai *St. Joseph's Church, Shaoxing Colombia *Saint Joseph's Church, Envigado Finland *Saint Joseph's Church, Kuopio France *St. Joseph's Church, Le Havre French Guiana *Saint Joseph's Church, Iracoubo Germany *St. Joseph's Church, Königsberg *St Joseph's Church, Mühlhausen India *St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Baramulla), Jammu and Kashmir *St. Joseph Church, Belman, Karnataka Indonesia *St. Joseph's Church, Semarang Ireland *St. Joseph's Church, East Wall Israel *St. Joseph's Church, Nazareth Japan *St. Joseph Roman ...
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Saint Joseph
Joseph (; el, Ἰωσήφ, translit=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. The Gospels also name some brothers of Jesus who may have been: (1) the sons of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Joseph; (2) sons of Mary, the wife of Clopas and sister of Mary the mother of Jesus; or (3) sons of Joseph by a former marriage. Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church and Anglicanism. His feast day is observed by some Lutherans. In Catholic traditions, Joseph is regarded as the patron saint of workers and is associated with various feast days. The month of March is dedicated to Saint Joseph. Pope Pius IX declared him to be both the patron and the protector of the Catholic Church, in addition to his patronages of the sick and of a happy death, due to the belief that he died in the presence of Jesus and ...
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