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Food & Drink

Celebrate a historic Lenten holiday with an Italian-inspired, south Louisiana-style feast

This month, on March 19, Catholics around the world will celebrate The Feast of St. Joseph. This lesser-known holiday dates back to the Middle Ages during a famine in Sicily. The faithful Catholic Sicilians prayed to Italy’s patron saint, Saint Joseph, to intercede with God to help them through the famine. When the harvests in Sicily were once again plentiful, people wanted to pay homage to St. Joseph by setting…

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