Joseph of Jacob (Saint Joseph)

«Well, tell me. Has a Child ever come back to Nazareth, a Child with a woman whose name was Mary and a man called Joseph, a Child, Who was even more beautiful than His Mother, so beautiful that I have never seen a fairer flower on the slopes of Judah? A Child born in Bethlehem of Judah, at the time of the edict? A Child Who later fled, most fortunately for the world. A Child, oh! I would give my life just to hear whether He is alive… He must be a man by now.»

«Why do you say that His flight was a great fortune for the world?»

«Because He was the Saviour, the Messiah and Herod wanted Him dead. I was not there when He fled with His father and Mother.»

• Escape to Egypt
• Joseph of Jacob (Saint Joseph)
• The Virgin Mary

78.8 An old man says: «Listen, my Lord. Some time ago, a long time ago, at the time of the edict, we heard here that the Saviour was born in Bethlehem… and I went there with other people… I saw a little Baby, exactly like all other new-born babies. But I adored Him with faith. Later I heard that there was a holy man, whose name is John. Which is the true Messiah?»

«The One you adored. The other is His Precursor: a great saint in the eyes of the Most High. But he is not the Messiah.»

«Was it You?»

«It was I. And what did you see around the new-born Child?»

«Poverty and cleanliness, honesty and purity… A kind serious carpenter, whose name was Joseph, a carpenter but of the House of David, a young mother, fair and kind, whose name was Mary, before whose grace the most beautiful roses of Engedi turn pale and the lilies of the royal flower beds seem mis-shapen, and a Child with large blue eyes and pale gold hair… I saw nothing else… And I can still hear the voice of the Mother say to me: “On behalf of My Creature I say to You: may the Lord be with you until the eternal meeting and may His Grace come towards you on your way”. I am eighty-four years old… my way is near its end. I was no longer expecting to meet the Grace of God. Instead I have found You… and now I do not wish to see any other light than Yours…

• Joseph of Jacob (Saint Joseph)
• Nativity of Jesus Christ
• The Virgin Mary
• Words of the Virgin Mary

• Joseph of Jacob (Saint Joseph)
• Nativity of Jesus Christ
• Sauveur
• Shepherds of the Nativity
• The Virgin Mary

• Joseph of Jacob (Saint Joseph)
• Yutta's Emmanuel child
• Yutta's child Jesaï (newborn)
• Yutta's child Joseph
• Yutta's child Marie

• Joseph of Bethlehem (shepherd of the Nativity who died before Christ's public life)
• Joseph of Jacob (Saint Joseph)
• Joseph of Joseph of Bethlehem (shepherd of the Nativity)
• Levi of Bethlehem (shepherd of the Nativity)

• Death and loss of a loved one - Bereavement
• Holiness
• Joseph of Jacob (Saint Joseph)

• James of Alphaeus (apostle)
• Joseph of Jacob (Saint Joseph)
• Jude of Alphée (apostle)

• Alphée de Jacob (father of James and Jude d'Alphée and uncle of Jesus)
• Death of Saint Joseph
• James of Alphaeus (apostle)
• Joseph of Jacob (Saint Joseph)
• Jude of Alphée (apostle)
• Susanna of Cana

• Anne of Aaron (mother of the Virgin Mary)
• Joachim of David (father of the Virgin Mary)
• Joseph of Jacob (Saint Joseph)
• The child Joseph (son of Alphée de Sarah)

• Joseph of Jacob (Saint Joseph)