Re: BURYING ST. JOSEPH?????
True Story_We listed our house in CT in August, 2005. Now, we had a beautiful home but it sat on a steep slope and to get to the third bedroom upstairs you had to walk through the second bedroom so it was going to take "the right person" to buy the house. Nothing much happened until my sister-in-law told us about St Joseph. So, figuring I had nothing to lose, I acquired a St Joseph statue in January, 2006. I felt totally stupid scraping away snow and ice and the burying him after chopping through several inches of dirt. Three weeks later, "bing bada boom"..the house sold at full price in what was getting to be a shaky market. We moved to the Villages but I left St Joseph in the ground. Long story short, a year later, the new owner listed the house in a tough "on it's way to terrible" market and "bing bada boom" the house sold almost immediately at a premium. Now, whether it was the beautiful kitchen with fireplace that we had or whether it was St Joseph is open to conjecture. Me (a lifelong Protestant) thinks it was more St Joseph than the kitchen...or, at least, a very nice blend of both. So, we are thankful and remain a bit in awe. We remember St Joseph in our prayers.
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