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SaintJoseph was also declared to be the patron saint and protector of the Universal Catholic Church (along with Saint Peter) by Pope Pius IX in 1870.
Joseph was betrothed to Mary at the time that she conceived Jesus; and therefore they were already legally husband and wife then, although they were not yet permitted to live together.
Joseph is the patron against doubt and hesitation, as well as the patron saint of fighting communism, and of a happy death.
Joseph reached the age of 110 years, which in Egyptian literature was considered as the perfect age, and before his death charged his descendants to take his bones to Canaan for burial when they should return to the Promised Land (ch 50:22–26).
Joseph’s 2 sons became the ancestors of 2 large and important tribes, Ephraim and Manasseh, but the name Joseph is frequently used in the OT to denote the combined tribes or the northern kingdom as a whole (Jos 16:1, 4; Jgs 1:22; 1 Ki 11:28; Ps 78:67; Eze 37:16; etc.).
Joseph’s investiture as vizier, as described in Gen 41:41–44, can be paralleled by literary records from Egypt and by ancient pictures showing the king in the act of placing golden chains with pectorals around the necks of his high courtiers.
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