St. Joseph Statue for Selling Homes Amazon $8.72 at Amazon 3. Boom — you get an offer on your house! At least, that’s the way the stories go.

Bury a statue of St. Joseph in the yard. Maybe wrapped in a cloth. But it must be upside down, near the “For Sale” sign, facing the house. Or facing away from the house, near the road.

Known as the patron saint of home and family, Joseph, the husband of the virgin Mary, is believed to be helpful in the selling of a house. The ritual is to bury a statue upside down, next to the ...

NEW STATUE OF ST. JOSEPH TO ADORN LOCKPORT CHURCH By KAREN BRADY AND THOMAS J. PROHASKA Mar 14, 2004 Mar 14, 2004 0 ...

As Snopes notes, no one knows exactly when the custom of using a St. Joseph statue to help sell a home became popular, but he seems to have reached widespread use in the U.S. around 1990, “with ...