Joseph the Worker Church

House of Nazareth with St. Josef in front of his carpenter's workshop, unknown painter, around 1700

Joseph the Worker (also spelled Joseph) is the patronage of numerous churches and chapels dedicated to St. Joseph , the foster father of Jesus, are consecrated as "workers" in his invocation . Churches with this patronage can also be referred to as Joseph the Worker Church . The feast of the patronage is the feast day of St. Joseph the Worker on May 1 , the day of work . The dividing line to pure Joseph's churches is not always easy to draw, since the invocation of St. Joseph is not always found as a “worker” in the name of the churches.

The memorial day was made by Pope Pius XII. introduced in 1955; Churches consecrated to "Joseph the Worker" therefore almost exclusively date from the period after the Second World War . They are often to be found in locations with a large proportion of workers . The day that, in addition to the solemnity of St. Joseph is celebrated on St. Joseph's Day , March 19, should strengthen the Catholic labor movement and St. Calling Joseph in memory as the patron saint of Catholic anti-communism , to which Pope Pius XI. in his encyclical Divini redemptoris (1937) declared "against atheistic world communism".

List of Joseph the Worker Churches

Industrial companies of local history are noted here in brackets.

Germany

• St. Joseph (Bielefeld) (new church in a working-class district in 1908)
• Filial church Sankt Josef der Arbeiter in Dorndorf ( Werra-Kalirevier )
• St. Josef (Eitorf-Harmonie)
• St. Josef (Eschelbronn)
• Parish Church of St. Joseph the Worker in Lindberg
• St. Joseph Church in Lingen - Laxten ( Lingen railway repair shop )
• Parish church of St. Joseph the Worker in Niederaichbach
• Parish church of the Catholic parish of St. Josef der Arbeiter Nördlingen
• St. Joseph the Worker (Ottendorf-Okrilla)
• Parish Church of St. Joseph the Worker in Rosenheim - Oberwöhr
• Filial church St. Josef (Saxony near Ansbach)
• Parish Church of St. Joseph the Worker (Senden) in Senden
• Parish church Sankt Josef der Arbeiter in Wolfratshausen -Waldram
• Parish Church of St. Joseph the Worker in Zirndorf

France

• Saint-Joseph-Artisan Parish Church in Paris

Italy

• Parish Church of St. Joseph the Worker in Vilpian , South Tyrol

Lithuania

• Church of Joseph the Worker in Klaipėda

Austria

Lower Austria

• Filial church Grimmenstein
• Nagelberg parish church
• Parish church Neu-Guntramsdorf
• Parish church Winzendorf

Upper Austria

• Parish church of Steyr-Ennsleite
• Parish Church Traberg
• Traun-Oedt parish church
• Filial church of St. Joseph in Altmünster
• Expositurkirche Steyrermühl in Laakirchen

Salzburg

• Parish church Hallein-Neualm

Styria

• Parish church Rohrbach an der Lafnitz
• Filial church St. Josef im Walde in Weinitzen

Tyrol

• Parish Church Absam-Eichat
• Parish Church Landeck-St. Joseph
• Parish church Ötztal-Bahnhof

Vorarlberg

• Gantschier parish church

Vienna

• St. Joseph the Worker (Vienna) in Floridsdorf

Poland

• St. Joseph the Worker in Wroclaw

St. Lucia

• St. Joseph the Worker Church (St. Lucia)

South Africa

• Parish of St. Josef the worker of the German-speaking Catholics of Pretoria (supported by the foreign secretariat of the German Bishops' Conference)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Felix Neumann: Saint Joseph holds up the workers flag. In: Katholisch.de , February 1, 2015, accessed on January 16, 2019.
2. ^ Community website -Pretoria