The Man Nearest to Christ Sheen Bearing witness to the veracity

Bearing witness to the veracity of the Salesian mantra

Address Solemnly Inaugurating the Second Vatican Council)

a Bohemian girl whom we had both known long ago

something of thy truth which my heart believes

The Man Nearest to Christ Sheen Bearing witness to the veracityBy Francis L. Filas, S. J. Saint Joseph, the faithful and prudent servant whom the Lord has set over His household, was declared patron of the Universal Church by Pope Pius IX in 1870. Yet devotion to the foster father of Jesus Christ has been a feature of the Christian life since the earliest days of the Church. In The Man Nearest to Christ, Francis L. Filas expertly surveys the nature and historic development of devotion to Saint Joseph, faithfully