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 ...

The figurines were commissioned in 1292 by Pope Nicholas IV, the first Franciscan pope, who was inspired by St. Francis of Assisi, the creator of the first living Nativity in Greccio, Italy, in 1223.

Vandalism to a church's nativity scene, including the decapitation of its Joseph figurine, has left its reverend "distraught, saddened and bewildered". All Saints Church in Chevallier Street has ...

The figurines were commissioned in 1292 by Pope Nicholas IV, the first Franciscan pope, who was inspired by St. Francis of Assisi, the creator of the first living Nativity in Greccio, Italy, in 1223.