Just before dawn on Sunday morning, St. Joseph Parish, the second-largest parish in the Archdioceses of Philadelphia, discovered that several religious statues at 338 Manor Avenue had been toppl ...

As Snopes notes, no one knows exactly when the custom of using a St. Joseph statue to help sell a home became popular, but he seems to have reached widespread use in the U.S. around 1990, "with ...

NEW STATUE OF ST. JOSEPH TO ADORN LOCKPORT CHURCH By KAREN BRADY AND THOMAS J. PROHASKA Mar 14, 2004 Mar 14, 2004 0 ...

In other words, I tell him: Pray for this problem!” he added. After this address, the statues of “Sleeping St. Joseph” saw an explosion in popularity.