St Joseph statue - the Tradition

Here you can find information about the tradition behind the statues of St Joseph and many excellent written articles about the story behind Saint Joseph statues and how they can help you sell your home. Do you need some information before buying a St Joseph statue?

- Will burying a St Joseph statue of  in your yard really help you to sell your house?
- Do you have to be Catholic to bury a statue of Saint Joseph?
- Where shall you bury a Saint Joseph statue?

Above is only a few examples of the different articles you can find at this site on how you can sell your home. But first you can read a short story about how some say the legend of the real estate agent St Joseph started:       

The saint of Carpenters has many name, such as Joseph the Worker, Joseph of Nazareth, Joseph the Betrothed and off course Saint Joseph. His religous role has increased in the centuaries til today.
Saint Joseph is today the worlds best real estate agent

The Legend of burying a statue of St. Joseph in your yard to sell your home

                    
There are different versions of the beginning of this legend. One of the most popular theories about the origin of this tradition attributed it to St. Teresa of Avila. The legend is that St. Teresa started the custom of burying a statue of St. Joseph in the land in her quest for a new convent for her nuns. St. Teresa of Avila, a renowned nun and famous Christian mystic had founded her own order of Carmelite nuns that were famous for living in poverty as a way to be closer to God. As the order grew and the Church wanted her to open other chapters of her order she needed appropriate land that would be large enough to house the nunnery.

She prayed to St. Joseph to help her find land that would be large enough and cheap enough for the project and encouraged her nuns to bury medals of St. Joseph in the ground to consecrate it and show the devotion of the nuns to St. Joseph. Eventually she did find the right piece of land and felt that the nuns’ prayers and burying the medals of St. Joseph had led St. Joseph to help her find the land.

From that point forward it became a tradition for people that were looking for a new home or looking for a piece of land to bury consecrated medals of St. Joseph in the land and pray for help finding a new home when they wanted to buy a new house or a new piece of land. Over the centuries the custom changed and instead of burying medals of St. Joseph people began burying small statues of St. Joseph when they wanted to sell their home or their property.

How did the tradition behind Saint Joseph change?

 Another version of the custom of burying a statue of St Joseph in order to help a house sell faster is attributed to Germany where home builders would often place a small statue of St. Joseph or St. Joseph medals that had been blessed in the foundations of new homes. The builders would pray for the new owners of the home and leave the statues and medals in the home to protect the new owners.

 St. Joseph is the patron saint of the house so it’s only natural that burying a statue of him would help the house sell faster. Because of his profession as a carpenter and his role in raising Jesus and providing a stable, happy home for Jesus in grow up in he is the perfect saint to pray to when you want to sell your home to a new family that is looking for a safe and happy place to live.

 In the 1980’s the tradition of burying a statue of St. Joseph in order to make a house sell faster became trendy among real estate agents who began buying thousands of small plastic St. Joseph statues and burying them on properties that they wanted to sell. These days many people swear that burying a statue of St. Joseph face down in the yard of a home that is on the market and praying intently to St. Joseph for help finding the right buyer for the property will help make a house sell faster. Once your house been sold you should dig up the statue and take it with you, making sure to put the statue in a place of honor in your new home.