NEW ORLEANS — A list of the St. Joseph's Day altars setting up in March, provided by the Archdiocese of New Orleans. If there is an altar that we missed, please email us at [email protected], so it ...

The altar honors St. Joseph, who provided relief from a famine to folks in Sicily. When Sicilian immigrants settled in New Orleans back in the 1800s, they started this tradition of altars filled with ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — St. Joseph’s altars are being set up across the Greater New Orleans region honoring Saint Joseph, spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and earthly father of Jesus. The St. Joseph ...

The St. Joseph Altar is a Sicilian tradition that originated as a tribute to St. Joseph after prayers for rain ended a severe drought. To show their gratitude people prepared a table of harvested ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The time has come once ...

This week, across the New Orleans area, descendants of Sicilian immigrants will lay out elaborate altars laden with food and drink in honor of St. Joseph. The tradition, a deeply rooted old-world ...

Honoring St. Joseph on or near his official feast day, a custom that traces its roots back over several centuries and from a land across the sea, was again observed with an altar and community feast ...

The task of overseeing the annual St. Joseph's Altar at Mount Carmel Academy in New Orleans began last September for Sue Buras. Using a detailed spreadsheet, Buras, a Mount Carmel graduate and a ...

The Friends of St. Joseph at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Denham Springs honored St. Joseph with a Mass, dedication and blessing of the elaborate St. Joseph’s Altar on Friday and a ...

Holy Spirit Parish will celebrate St. Joseph’s Day with an evening Mass and Consecration to St. Joseph on Wednesday, March 19 at St. Adalbert’s Church, 31 S. Market St., Glen Lyon, beginning at 6 p.m.