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Saint Joseph (2001-2056) was born in Tampa, Florida. As a child Joseph was not part of the Catholic Church until 2011 when he went to incarnation catholic school and was inspired to become a Catholic. He was baptized into the Catholic Church on March 26, 2016. During his childhood he spent much of his time studying the word of God in the Bible and interpreting the word of God. Joseph was also inspired to be a missionary during his childhood. During his college years he studied civil engineering so that he could contribute to important engineering projects when he became a missionary

Saint Joseph joined a missionary organization at age 23 in 2024 on November 14. On his first expedition he traveled to Morocco to help build a church in 2025. After 5 months he finished the project and returned home. He continued doing mission work in many different foreign countries after that. Then on May 28, 2056 he went on a mission trip to Papua New Guinea to build a dam for a small village to protect them from flooding. As evening came on June 20 a severe tropical storm rolled in and the workers went to seek shelter in the village. Once inside the workers realized that one of the workers had been left behind in the storm. Saint Joseph volunteered to drive out and get him. Driving through pouring rain, slashing wind, and roaring thunder; in the dark of night, he arrived at the site of the dam. He found the worker but he also saw that the dam could not possibly hold back the flood waters, so he told the worker to drive back without him, and he stayed there throughout the whole night using everything about engineering he knew to keep that dam up. In the morning mist of June 21 the workers found him toppled over from exhaustion. He died two days later from a severe tropical disease he got from staying out in the rain.

On December 14, 2063 he was canonized a saint. His feast day was declared to be June 23 because it was when he died from the tropical disease. He is the patron saint of tropical diseases because it was his cause of death. He is considered a saint for three different reasons. The first reason is that he served Christ by doing missionary work in his life to help the poor. The second reason is that by keeping the dam in Papua New Guinea up he saved the lives of many villagers. The third reason is for outstanding courage and lack of self interest he possessed, he ignored his needs and put God's needs and the needs of others before them.