St. Joseph's Day

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Statue of St. Josef in the parish church of Atzwang , South Tyrol

The St. Joseph's (also (St.) Josephstag , Joseftag , or St. Joseph's ) is in the church year the Roman Catholic Church the Solemnity of Sts. Joseph on March 19th . In Bavaria the day is called Josefi , in Switzerland also Seppitag , in Austria (rarely) also Josephine day .

The special veneration of St. Joseph, the bridegroom of the Mother of God , developed in the Middle Ages . March 19th as a date is first found in the 12th century. In 1870 Pope Pius IX declared. the St. Joseph as the patron saint of the whole church.

St. According to his profession as a carpenter , which is handed down from the Bible, Joseph is also the patron saint of the workers , especially the craftsmen , here again the carpenters and joiners . He is also considered the patron saint of virgin people and marriage .

The feast of St. Joseph on March 19 can also be found in the Evangelical Name Calendar , the Lutheran Worship of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod as well as the Anglican Common Worship .

As a reaction of the Catholic Church to the labor movement , in addition to the solemn festival in March, the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, with whom St. Joseph honored, but also the dignity of human work should be made clear. The memorial day was made by Pope Pius XII. Introduced in 1955.

National holiday

St. Joseph's Day is a public holiday in certain predominantly Catholic cantons of Switzerland (canton-wide: Nidwalden , Schwyz , Ticino , Uri , Wallis ; individual communities: Graubünden , Lucerne , Solothurn , Zug ) and in the Principality of Liechtenstein and Colombia . In Spain , St. Joseph's Day is a public holiday in the autonomous communities of Murcia and Valencia . In some Austrian federal states such as Tyrol , Vorarlberg , Carinthia and Styria there is no school, many regional offices are closed, but it is not a general holiday.

After the Second World War, St. Joseph's Day was first reintroduced as a public holiday in the German states of Baden and Bavaria after the National Socialists had regulated the public holiday system uniformly across the empire. With a new public holiday law for Baden-Württemberg, it was initially dropped in Baden until it was also abolished in Bavaria in 1969. The Royal Bavarian Joseph Party Association advocates the legal reintroduction of the public holiday.

In Italy , St Joseph's Day was a public holiday until it was abolished in 1977. Several bills have been submitted to the Roman parliament to reinstate the public holiday. Many senators and members of parliament have already signed, and the former Prime Minister Romano Prodi was also concerned. In the Berlusconi IV cabinet (2008–2011), over 14 bills were introduced that provided for the reintroduction of St. Joseph's Day and other public holidays that were abolished in 1977, such as Corpus Christi and Ascension Day and Peter and Paul . Many Italian cardinals and bishops welcome the project, as does the former Pope Benedict XVI. In the South Tyrolean state parliament a request in this regard the request has been repeatedly approved by a majority.

Weather rules

Farming rules have been handed down for this day :

  • "A beautiful St. Joseph's Day may promise a good year."
  • "If it is clear on Joseph's Day, a fruitful year will follow!"
  • "If it is clear to Josef, there will be a good honey year ."
  • "Once it's Josefi, the winter ends definitely."

Web links

Commons : St. Joseph's Day  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holidays Europe - St. Joseph. In: fcal.ch. Retrieved March 19, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Liechtenstein events and public holidays 2019 festagskalender.ch, accessed on March 25, 2019
  3. ↑ Día de San José 2019 en Colombia calendariodecolombia.com, accessed on March 25, 2019 (Spanish)
  4. ^ Ulrich Nachbaur : The Vorarlberg state patron. A contribution to the veneration of St. Joseph and to the national holidays in Austria . In: Montfort. Quarterly magazine for the past and present of Vorarlberg . 56th year, issue 1/2, 2004, ISBN 3-85430-319-X , p. 74–91 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website ).
  5. ^ Leo Wohleb: State law on the protection of Sundays and public holidays. In: Constitutions of the World. February 26, 1948. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Dr. Gebhard Müller: Law on Sundays and Holidays. In: Constitutions of the World. December 13, 1954. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
  7. ^ Report in the Passauer Neue Presse from March 17, 2007
  8. ↑ Gazzetta Ufficiale: L. 5 March 1977, n. 54. Disposizioni in materia di giorni festivi . March 5th 1977.
  9. ↑ Anke Fischer: Feste und Customs in Germany , Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89736-323-2 , p. 24.