Year of St. Joseph

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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School was happy to celebrate and recognize the lives of two saints, St. Joseph and St. Patrick, in one week in March. 

It was a bitterly cold night in the dead of winter 1868, and Bethlehem Academy was nearly out of firewood.

The folklore is well known: Need to sell a house? Bury a statue of St. Joseph in the yard. Maybe wrapped in a cloth. But it must be upside down, near the "For Sale" sign, facing the house. Or facing away from the house, near the road. Or near flowers because he likes that.

St. Patrick's Day has its corned beef and cabbage and St. Joseph's Day has zeppoles -- Italian cream-filled doughnuts.