Italy off the beaten path, Osimo and San Giuseppe sanctuary
He is not the most famous among historical personages, he doesn’t have the biggest or the most beautiful basilica but San Giuseppe da Copertino is hands down the most intriguing and endearing of the Saints. He started being rejected from the Church because too clumsy and unworthy, then when he manifested the gift of levitation had to be put away to protect him from popular curiosity and the troubling interest of the Inquisition. Osimo is the town where he spent his last peaceful years and where he eventually died. The city of Osimo dedicated to San Giuseppe a church where you can visit the chambers where he lived and a vast array of mementos. The friars will enthusiastically show you an impressive collection of ex-voto (gifts from devotee for a received grace). The ex-voto are mainly from students and catastrophe survivors because he is said to be the helper of desperate causes, the mediocre students and aviators. If you need help and comfort, address your payers to this unusual saint and your petitions might be acknowledged.
Osimo
is a lovely historical town with a rich and intriguing past. Particularly impressive is the maize of underground caves that almost amounts to a city itself.
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