Feast
Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
- Feast day
- December 30
Life
This feast celebrates the family life of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph in Nazareth, held up as the model for all Christian families. Devotion to the Holy Family grew in the seventeenth century, and the feast was extended to the universal Church by Pope Benedict XV in 1921. It is observed on the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas, or on December 30 when no Sunday falls within the octave.
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