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Thanks for posting this. I once heard Fr. Patrick Readron (Orthodox priest) give a talk on the fatherhood of St. Joseph which was amazingly inspirational. I feel that my dear husband is a Joseph-type!

But help me out here. The other day I was trying to think of patron saints for married men, and the results were -- sparse.

There's the OT Patriarchs, but they were, unfortunately, polygamous. And their relations with concubines and multiple wives often led to strife, and the kids were apparently troubled. (Jacob's sons selling their brother into slavery; Absalom! Absalom! etc.)

And Mary's husband was so exceptional that in some ways he does not serve as an example: for instance, perpetual virginity is not the vocation that most husbands are called to. Really and truly.

There's St. Thomas More. A really wise, solid standard, heavy-duty, fully-functioning husband and hands-on homeschooling father, with an exceptionally fine family life, plus of course writer and intellectual, brilliantly successful lawyer, Chancellor of England, and martyr. He's got it all.

So there's one. And? And?

Somebody please help me find more married (Orthodox or Catholic!!) husband-and-father saints!