Excerpt from Admirable Life of the Glorious Patriarch Saint Joseph It their nourishment; the laboring classes be came attached to it; young people and old adopted it. St. Sulpice, in accepting it, intro duced it among the secular clergy. Thus the beautiful devotion to St. Joseph attracted in these latter ages innumerable religious order and congregations, great and small, young and old, ecclesiastics and laics, schools and con fraternities, hospitals, asylums, and houses of pen itence. At this time it is universal: it extends over the whole of Europe and America, and it prevails in the most remote regions where our intrepid missionaries disseminate and make it dear to millions of savages. (le S. Sacrament, vol. I. P. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.