Lost Treasure Rediscovered: ‘Month of St. Joseph: For the Children of Mary’

BOOK PICK: A reprint from 1888 will aid your celebration of the Year of St. Joseph. Month of St. Joseph: For the Children of Mary By Father R. P. Huguet Penitence Press, 2021 102 pages; $9.99 To order: amazon.com Two decades ago, Marie McGrath came across a treasure in a junk store: It was a book about St. Joseph. She purchased this treasure, “loved and cherished it, until recently, when it became abundantly clear that the book was at the end of its rope, falling apart,” she said. Since the book was first published in 1888, she knew she had to either reprint this book — and thereby share it with others — or lose it. “I just didn’t want the book to be lost forever,” she said. She saw that her “mission is to make St. Joseph’s name known.” The Year of St. Joseph became the perfect time to bring this treasure — Month of St. Joseph: For the Children of Mary by Father R.M. Huguet of the Society of Mary — to light again. This year in March, 141 years after it was first published in France in …