This is St. Nicholas Owen, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales canonized in 1970 by Pope Paul VI. Unlike the vast majority of the English Martyrs, Nicholas Owen was not a priest but a ...

Origins and development . Devotion to St. Joseph grew slowly in the early centuries of Christianity. While he is mentioned in the Gospels as a “just man” (Matthew 1:19), his veneration was not ...

St. Joseph’s parishioners appealed the closing to the Vatican and, in 2011, won a partial victory, retaining the right to use the building for Mass every March 19 — the Feast of St. Joseph ...