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Item:Saint Joseph Real Estate Selling Statue - Guaranteed !!
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Saint Joseph Real Estate Selling Statue - Guaranteed !!

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Ended11 Nov, 200922:53:20 AEDST
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Item number:300363738631
Item location:Mooers Forks, New York, United States
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History:2 sold
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Condition: NewMaterial: Pewter
St Joseph

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Very pleasant experience! Exactly as described and prompt shipping! A+++

Great seller, Super Fast Shipping!!Buyer:
PERFECT !!!! ILL LET YOU KNOW MY LUCK. THANK YOU  Buyer: tmazztc
 
St Joseph Real Estate Selling Statue. Plus the Prayer we used SUCCESFULLY !!

Over 50 sold since July 2009 !!!!

We picked up these at St Joseph Oratory in Montreal on October  24th, 2009.

They were blessed by the Brother Doorkeeper and dipped in the Holy Water at the Outdoor Font, overlooking the Western part of the city.

We buried a similar statue upside down on Friday, the 5th of June, 2009. We had 6 visits during the week, an offer on the 15th, sold on the 16th of June, 2009. Closed on July 30th. We got $2000 more than Asking !!

You will receive a One Inch Pewter Statue and the prayer to recite, at the time of internment.


Purchase 2 and you will also receive a FREE  Kateri Tekakwitha medal, acquired from the KT shrine in Kahnawake. The Patron Saint of Ecology !!!!!!



 The custom of burying a statue of St. Joseph in order to sell a home you place on the market.

The custom hearkens back at least to the great St. Teresa of Avila (A.D. 1515 - 1582), foundress of the Disalced Carmelite Order. As her Order spread, a new convent had to be built, and in order for a new convent to be built, land must be had. When the nuns found a particular piece of land that was perfect for their purposes, they also found that their coffers weren't full enough to purchase it, so they decided to ask the intercession of St. Joseph, burying medals imprinted with his likeness in the ground of the desired property as a sign of their prayers. It worked.

It also worked for Blessed Brother André Bessette, who was able to get the land on which he built the Shrine of St. Joseph of Mount Royal, in Montreal, Canada by praying to St. Joseph and burying a St. Joseph medal on the grounds of the future site as a sign of his prayers.

Now, both of these events deal with acquiring land, not selling it, and they deal with St. Joseph medals, not St. Joseph statues. Nonetheless, over time, the folk custom came to be for sellers of homes to bury a statue of St. Joseph as a sign of prayer asking to find a buyer and hasten the sale.

 
How it's done

Most commonly, a statue of St. Joseph is placed inside a protective cloth and buried upside-down in the front yard. People differ as to whether the statue should be upside-down or right side-up, and whether the yard should be the front yard or back yard, but worrying about such things is unecessary.

Then a prayer to St. Joseph is said.  

Anyway, when the house is sold, God and St. Joseph are thanked, the statue is dug up and given a place of honor in your new home, and you, of course, tell others about the power of St. Joseph's intercession.

Is this custom superstitious? It is if one doesn't believe in the intercession of Saints and the good of making outward signs of prayer. Given that two million  are sold each year -- even to Protestants and pagans -- I imagine that most people who practice this custom do superstitiously bury the statues for a sense of "luck" more than anything. But that doesn't make the practice bad in itself, not when it's done properly: with sincere prayer, giving St. Joseph a place of honor in your new home, and telling others of the wonders of this great Saint.



This testimonial from an acquaintance  - 

This does work! My wife and I buried a small St Joseph statue in our back yard after 3 months of fruitless effort in selling our home. Shortly after, we were getting traffic through our home and did eventually sell our home. The timing was perfect because the home we were buying was contingent on this sale as well as that home's sale was contingent, too! St Joseph truly came through for us. As an aside, a year later I was digging in my garden and who did I find................. yes, the previous owner's St Joseph. We're keeping him and he's keeping us.


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