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Jul 18, 2024 · Dec. 8, 2020, marks the 150th anniversary of Blessed Pius IX proclaiming St. Joseph as “Patron of the Universal Church.” The timing was providential, for several reasons. The date also celebrated the 16th anniversary of Pius IX’s proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
Mar 18, 2021 · On December 8, 1870, Joseph was declared Patron of the Universal Church by Pope Pius IX. In 1962, Pope John XXIII inserted the name of Joseph in the Canon of the Mass, immediately after that of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Dec. 8, 2020, marks the 150th anniversary of Blessed Pius IX proclaiming St. Joseph as “Patron of the Universal Church.” The timing was providential, for several reasons.
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Blessed Pope Pius IX’s declaration of St. Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church, Pope Francis has proclaimed a special “Year of St. Joseph.”
Painting of Pope Pius IX, 1847. Pius IX was the last pope who also functioned as a secular ruler and the monarch of the Papal States, ruling over some 3 million subjects from 1846 to 1870, when the newly founded Kingdom of Italy seized the remaining areas of the Papal States by force of
In 1834, Gregory XVI definitively approved the vow of 1624 and Saint Joseph officially became the first Patron of Canada. Saint Joseph was thus honored as patron and protector of the Church of Canada, before being declared patron and protector of the universal Church by Pope Pius IX, on December 8, 1870. Sources:
ON 23 August 1856 Pope Pius IX extended to the universal Church the celebration of the feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. To commemorate the centenary of that event our present Holy Father issued recently his encyclical, "Hauriet i s Aquas," on the true nature of devotion to the Sacred Heart. In this
