After the feast at St. Joseph's altar, all of the leftover food is donated to local kitchens and shelters. Additionally, visitors are encouraged to make monetary donations, which will be divided ...

Soon enough, if not already, fig cookies, lemons and fava beans will adorn pied St. Joseph Altars at local Catholic churches to celebrate the feast day of the saint. The tradition dates back to ...

In the Middle Ages, residents there prayed to St. Joseph, the island nation's patron saint, to provide for them during famine. On the saint's feast day, March 19, they built altars in thanks.

St Joseph's Day is a Christian feast day which honours Saint Joseph ... Sicilians celebrate St Joseph's Day with a special altar, where they place foods, flowers and objects to express their ...

The following parishes, schools and entities of the Archdiocese of New Orleans will carry on the tradition of erecting St. Joseph Altars this month. The tradition, which is Sicilian in origin but ...

St. Joseph altars had been a way to celebrate the feast day for three decades when, in 1914, the Times-Democrat wrote about the altar at St. Joseph Church in Gretna. It reported that the Rev ...

WGNO News with a Twist features guy Wild Bill Wood takes you on a tour of St. Joseph’s Altars around town. First stop is St. Francis Xavier Church in Old Metairie, right on Metairie Road.

Altar closes at 7:30 p.m. ST. ANN ... March 19: Viewing from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. in church, with St. Joseph Feast Day Mass and blessing at noon. Meals will be served after Mass. Donations received ...

With la Festa di San Giuseppe, the feast of St. Joseph on March 19 ... proportions and Sicilians built huge, colorful altars to thank St. Joseph. Devotion to him does not end there.

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — As March marches on, the Feast of St. Joseph is quickly approaching. Passed down from generation to generation, the St. Joseph Altars bring together the likeness of ...

The St. Patrick's parade is over and the Irish (and honorary Irish) have gone home to sleep off their annual bout of intemperance, but the multi-generational marchers of the Italian-American St ...

Parishioners celebrate Feast of Corpus Christi with a procession On Sunday, St. Joseph, St. Ann and Sacred ... at people’s homes where there were altars to have prayer and do readings.