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Research Centers Dedicated to St. Joseph

Valladolid and Montreal

The years after World War II saw the founding of two major research centers devoted to the study of Saint Joseph. In 1946, Father José Antonio Carrasco, OCD (1905-2002), founded the Centro Josefino Español at the historic Carmelite monastery of San Benito el Real in Valladolid, Spain. The following year, he launched the scholarly journal, Estudios Josefinos, which publishes two issues annually and continues publication to the present day. Fr. Carrasco also founded the bimonthly magazine, El mensajero de San José, which was aimed at a popular readership, and in 1951 the Ibero-American Society of Josephology. Today the Centro Josefino Español houses a comprehensive library of books and resources of all kinds related to Saint Joseph. Estudios Josefinos is published and edited under the auspices of the Discalced Carmelite Iberian Province of Saint Teresa of Jesus. Here is a link to Fr. Carrasco’s biography on the site of the Royal Academy of History in Madrid.

During this same time period, a similar development also took place at the Oratory of Saint Joseph in Montreal, Canada, where Father Roland Gauthier, CSC (1915-2005), founded the Saint Joseph Research Centre in 1951. Two years later, the scholarly journal, Cahiers de Joséphologie, was launched, with two issues being published annually from 1953 to 1994, when it ceased publication. It was replaced by Cahiers de l’Oratoire Saint-Joseph, which published two issues annually from 1996 until 2002. In 2013, the Centre was renamed “The Roland Gauthier Archives and Documentation Centre,” whose mission is “to gather, conserve, organize and make available documents about Saint Joseph, Saint Brother André, the life of the shrine, as well as several related pastoral and theological issues (such as prayer, suffering, death, etc.).” Further information is available at:

Josephology: The Science of Saint Joseph

The Friend of Brother Andre Newsletter (Spring 2014)

The Research Collection of Fr. Roland Gauthier

Links to Further St. Joseph Resources & Articles

• Other St. Joseph Resource Pages

  • Fr. Calloway's Consecration to St. Joseph - Main Page

  • Oblates of St. Joseph Resource Page

  • DSM (De Sales and Mermier) Resource Centre, Hyderabad - Josephology Resource Page

  • List of Must-Read Josephology Books (Franciscan Focus)

  • Year of St. Joseph: Resources, Devotions

  • Keep Believing

• Organizations

  • Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal, Montréal (Quebec) Canada [also listed above]

  • Knights of Columbus

    • St. Joseph Resources

    • St. Joseph Index

  • Men of St. Joseph

  • The Fathers of St. Joseph

  • Porters of St. Joseph

• Journal Articles

  • Marian Studies, Official Publication of the Mariological Society of America, Archives

  • Reordering Thomistic Josephology: Sanctifying Grace in Christ, Saint Joseph, and Us, Andrew Hofer, O.P. & Jonah Teller, O.P., Nova et Vetera, Winter 2022 (Vol. 20, No. 1)

• Other Articles

  • John A. Hardon, S.J., Index of Articles from the Real Presence

  • The Fatherly Heart of St. Joseph, John Cavadini, University of Notre Dame, Church Life Journal, A Journal of the McGrath Institute for Church Life

  • Saint Joseph's Apostolic Work, Albert Power, S.J., M.A.

  • Catechesis on St. Joseph, Opus Dei

  • St. Joseph, Our Guide

  • Who’s the Greatest Pope of St. Joseph?, John D. Lewis

  • Catholic Insight: The Nature and Extent of Josephology, Joshua Fillepeto

  • Articles from The Scott Smith Blog

    • The Consecration to St. Joseph for Children and Families: 33-Day Family Prayer Routine to Build Holier Families by Fr. Donald Calloway and Scott L. Smith

    • Was St. Joseph an Old Man or a Young Man? How Old was St. Joseph When He Married Mary? The Bible Tells Us St. Joseph's Exact Age

    • Why is St. Joseph the Terror of Demons? The Cloak of Joseph, The Concealer of the Holy Family

    • Why Are Jesus' Genealogies in Matthew and Luke Different? Was St. Joseph Adopted, too? Spiritual Insights into Adoption

    • St. Joseph, Hammer of Communists: The Anti-Communist Origins of the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker

    • Joseph's Coat of Many Colors -- Is It Really a Technicolor Dreamcoat? The Mistranslation of Genesis 37:3 and the Hidden Meaning for St. Joseph

    • What Does St. Joseph Say in the Bible? St. Joseph's One Word in Scripture -- Did You Know St. Joseph Was Actually Not Silent in the Bible?

    • Mary and Joseph's Wedding Ring: Santo Anello and Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich's Visions

    • 3 Things To Do on St. Joseph's Feast Day According to St. Teresa of Avila, and Why St. Joseph is Special Among the Saints

    • Novena to St. Joseph for Work, Family, Job, Employment, to Sell House

• Blogs

  • Ad Te Beate Ioseph, Blog

• Videos

  • Josephology YouTube Channel, Josephology Facebook Page, John Lewis

  • Fr. Looney YouTube Channel, Episode: What is Josephology with Dr. Robert Fastiggi

  • St. Paul Center YouTube Channel, Episode: Scott Hahn, "The Silent Knight - Dr. Hahn's Christmas Reflection on St. Joseph"

  • Franciscan University of Steubenville YouTube Channel, Episode: Franciscan University Presents: St. Joseph and the Holy Family

• Audio

  • William H. Willimon, "The Second Disciple" (December 23, 2001)

  • Ask Christopher West Podcast, Episode 105: Misconceptions of St. Joseph

Bibliography: Books on St. Joseph

• Fr. Edward Healy Thompson, The Life and Glories of St. Joseph (PDF)

• Very Rev. Archdeacon Kinane, P.P., St. Joseph’s Life, Virtues, Privileges, Power (PDF)

• Elizabeth Lev, The Silent Knight: A History of St. Joseph as Depicted in Art

• Papal Encyclicals & other Papal Writings on St. Joseph

  • Quamquam Pluries, Leo XIII, "On Devotion to St. Joseph"

  • Redemptoris Custos, John Paul II, Apostolic Exhortation, "On the Person and Mission of St. Joseph in the Life of Christ and of the Church"

  • Patris Corde, Francis

  • General Audiences on St. Joseph, Francis

• Other Bibliographies on St. Joseph

  • List of Must-Read Josephology Books (Franciscan Focus)

Table of Contents

• Research Centers Dedicated to St. Joseph

• Links to Further St. Joseph Resources & Articles

• Bibliography: Books on St. Joseph