Joseph

The "Shadow of the Father" is the silent protector who never uttered a word recorded in Scripture but whose actions changed the course of eternity. A man of dreams and of hard, splintered wood—a carpenter who shaped the hands of the One who shaped the stars. Greatness lay in "creative courage," the ability to protect the Vulnerable in the face of a tyrant’s wrath. This represents the eternal truth that the most vital service is often performed in the silence of duty and the hiddenness of the home. This is the patron of a "happy death," having passed in the arms of the Son and the Mother.