I originally painted this image for a friend who had recently had a miscarriage. She wanted to give an image of Saint Joseph to her spouse on his first Father's Day, knowing it would be hard to celebrate without the joy of their child with them. She asked for Jesus to be holding a rose in honor of their little girl. There is a halo around the rose in honor of the purity and holiness of her life that would spend its entirety in heaven. May God be with you in any loss you may be experiencing, and may we live our lives with the purity and holiness that Saint Joseph did!
