Joseph with Doves

Saint Joseph with Doves :: beth1516_ws

• dolomite stone and resin
• handcrafted in France
• 14 inches
• symbol of Christian veneration of St.Joseph

St. Joseph is depicted here holding two doves as related in Luke 2:21-24:

On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he had been conceived. When the time of their purification according to the Law of Moses had been completed, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, "Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord"), and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: "a pair of doves or two young pigeons."