TIME Photo Essay: The Art of Joseph: Joseph's limited profile in Scripture eventually inspired his admirers to greater feats of pious interpretation, resulting in a colorful and varied cavalcade of carpenters. St. Joseph and the Christ Child Enthroned with Four Angels, c. 1700-1740, School of Cuzco, private collection. In time, by virtue of Joseph's earthly authority over his family in Nazareth, champions like Teresa of Avila claimed that in heaven, "God does whatever he commands." Not everyone went so far, but Catholics came to understand him as an intercessor of a potency second only to that of the Virgin herself. PHOTO BY PHOTO COURTESY SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY, PHILADELPHIA
PHOTO COURTESY SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY, PHILADELPHIA
The Art of Joseph: Joseph's limited profile in Scripture eventually inspired his admirers to greater feats of pious interpretation, resulting in a colorful and varied cavalcade of carpenters
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St. Joseph and the Christ Child Enthroned with Four Angels, c. 1700-1740, School of Cuzco, private collection. In time, by virtue of Joseph's earthly authority over his family in Nazareth, champions like Teresa of Avila claimed that in heaven, "God does whatever he commands." Not everyone went so far, but Catholics came to understand him as an intercessor of a potency second only to that of the Virgin herself
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FROM THE December 19, 2005 ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE; POSTED Tuesday, December 13, 2005

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