According to the canonical Gospels, Joseph was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.
Saint Joseph with the Infant Jesus by Guido Reni, c. 1635
Presentation at the Temple (detail), Byzantine, Panagia Amasgou, Monagri, Cyprus
Christ in the House of his Parents, 1850, by John Everett Millais
Joseph the Carpenter, by Georges de La Tour, c. 1645
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Saint Joseph
…venerated images of Saint Joseph have been granted a decree of canonical coronation by a pontiff. Religious iconography often depicts him with lilies or spikenard. With the present-day growth of Mariology, the theological field of Josephology has also grown and since the 1950s centers for studying it have been…