The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph. Veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Blessed François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who founded a Confraternity.
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—Book Of Common Prayer, The. Solemnization of Matrimony, “Exhortation,” (1662)
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