Saint Joseph travel guide

Joseph "of the House of David" (heb.יוֹסֵף also Saint Joseph, Joseph the Betrothed, Joseph of Nazareth, and Joseph the Worker) was, according to the canonical Christian Gospel accounts and tradition, the husband of Mary and the father of Jesus of Nazareth, although – as they also assert – Joseph did not physically beget Jesus, but Mary had conceived him through divine means (see virgin birth).
The genealogy in Matthew shows that Joseph's own father was called Jacob; according to the genealogy in Luke Joseph was a son of Heli.
From the canonical Gospel accounts little else is known about Joseph himself except that he was a skilled craftsman (often held to have been a carpenter) and during Jesus's childhood lived at times in Nazareth in Galilee, Bethlehem in Judea, and in exile in Egypt.
In particular, the canonical Gospel accounts contain no information about Joseph's death. However, because they mention his presence only at events during Jesus's childhood but not during his public ministry and passion, moreover, when hanging on the cross Jesus made provision for the care of his mother after his own imminent death, the possibility cannot be ruled out that she was a widow by then and that Joseph had died some time during the two decades between Jesus's childhood and the commencement of his public ministry, an interval about which the canonical Gospel accounts are altogether silent. (...) more....

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