Excerpt from the book St. Joseph: his life, his virtues, his privileges, his power: a month of March in his honor - Though not a dogmatically defined belief of the Catholic faith there is good reason to believe that St. Joseph, due to the role God had planned for him as the protector of the Blessed Virgin and the Child Savior, was sanctified in his mother’s womb as were Jeremias and St. John the Baptist.