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...events' memory ever totally abated.In recent years, Steve Saint, the son of one of the slain missionaries who took up his father?s calling and worked among the Waodani, has made vastly successful appearances at Christian concerts, megachurches and conferences with Mincaye, the Waodani (now a dentist) who killed his father. Melinda Perry, who attends a conservative Presbyterian church in Nashville, saw the duo with her 12-year-old daughter at a concert by gospel artist Steven Curtis Chapman...
...lead role in Holding Heaven, a novella by Jerry Jenkins, co-author of the Left Behind series. An audio version of the new book will air on more than 300 radio stations around Yuletide. "I'm his cheerleader," says Jenkins of Joseph. "He doesn't have to be a saint. He was chosen to be the earthly father, and he was really good...
...Audiences," writes Louise Bourassa Perrotta, author of Saint Joseph: His Life and His Role in the Church Today, "do not generally react well when favorite characters are retired early," citing Sherlock Holmes and Joseph. Nor did early Christians appreciate potshots by contemporaries who suspected Jesus might have been Joseph's son after all, or questioned Mary's virginity when Scripture talked about his having several "brothers" and "sisters." Among the first attempts to address all those issues were the vivid set of books known as the Apocrypha...
...this was not exactly the exciting makings of mass devotion, and for a long time, says the Rev. Joseph Lienhard, an expert in the early church at New York City's Fordham University, "Joseph was not a popular saint." That's an understatement. His name did not pop up on any Western saints lists until 1000. The Koran, which dates from the 600s, dedicates a chapter to Mary but omits Joseph. According to Sandra Miesel, a Catholic journalist with a specialty in medieval history, a list of 30,000 Florentine men of the officeholding class before 1530 contained precisely...
...model for her order and named 12 of 17 monasteries after Joseph. "The devotion snowballed," says Chorpenning, and the Earthly Trinity, as Jesus, Mary and Joseph came sometimes to be called, took Catholic Europe by storm. It had also leaped to the New World, where Joseph became the patron saint of both "New Spain" and "New France." He remains the official saint of Catholics in Mexico and Canada...