Consequently, all the names between David and Joseph are different. Each contains a genealogy of Jesus showing ancestry from King David, but through different sons Matthew follows the major royal line from Solomon, while Luke traces another line back to Nathan, another son of David and Bathsheba. The first appearance of Joseph is in the gospels of Matthew and Luke, often dated from around 80–90 AD. The Gospel of Mark, believed to be the first gospel to be written and with a date about two decades after Paul, also does not mention Jesus' father. These mention Jesus' mother (without naming her), but do not refer to his father. The Pauline epistles are the oldest extant Christian writings. In the New Testament Dream of St Joseph, c. With the present-day growth of Mariology, the theological field of Josephology has also grown and since the 1950s centers for studying it have been formed. Religious iconography often depicts him with lilies or spikenard.

Several venerated images of Saint Joseph have been granted a decree of canonical coronation by a pontiff. A specific veneration is tributed to the most chaste and pure heart of Saint Joseph. Being a patron saint of virgins, he is venerated as 'most chaste'.

Joseph has become patron of various dioceses and places. Pope Pius IX declared him to be both the patron and the protector of the Catholic Church, in addition to his patronages of the sick and of a happy death, due to the belief that he died in the presence of Jesus and Mary. The month of March is dedicated to Saint Joseph. In Catholic traditions, Joseph is regarded as the patron saint of workers and is associated with various feast days. His feast day is observed by some Lutherans. Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church and Anglicanism. Joseph ( Hebrew: יוסף, romanized: Yosef Greek: Ἰωσήφ, romanized: Ioséph) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who, according to the canonical Gospels, was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.

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