In Photo: Saint Joseph of Cupertino is lifted in flight at the sight of the Basilica of Loreto, a painting by Ludovico Mazzanti (18th century). Giuseppe Maria Desa was born in a shed at the back of ...

I remember that old gospel song, “I’ll fly away oh glory, I’ll fly away. When I die, hallelujah by ad by, I’ll fly away.” We might “fly away” when we die but devotees of St. Joseph of Cupertino ...

Joseph Bologne was born in 1745 in the French West Indies on a plantation on the island of Guadeloupe. "Black slaves in Saint-Domingue in Haiti and, presumably, also in Guadeloupe were forced to wear ...