Everyone’s Patron
July 3, 2020
St. Joseph is the patron saint of a wide variety of things and places:
- against doubt
- against hesitation
- bursars
- cabinetmakers
- carpenters
- Church
- confectioners
- craftsmen
- dying people
- emigrants
- engineers
- expectant mothers
- families
- fathers
- happy death
- holy death
- house hunters
- immigrants
- interior souls
- laborers
- married people
- Oblates of Saint Joseph
- people in doubt
- people who fight Communism
- pioneers
- pregnant women
- protection of the Church
- social justice
- travelers
- unborn children
- Universal Church
- wheelwrights
- workers
- working people
- Americas
- Austria
- diocese of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Belgium
- diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi
- Bohemia
- diocese of Buffalo, New York
- Canada
- Carinthia
- diocese of Cheyenne, Wyoming
- China
- Croatian people (in 1687 by decree of the Croatian parliament)
- Florence, Italy
- Korea
- diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin
- archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky
- diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire
- Mexico
- diocese of Nashville, Tennessee
- New France
- New World
- Peru
- diocese of San Jose, California
- Sicily
- diocese of Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Styria, Austria
- Turin Italy
- Tyrol, Austria
- Vatican II
- Viet Nam
- diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia
- and on December 8, 1870, Pope Pius IX proclaimed him the patron of the Universal Church
