(Slideshow) 8 Italian traditions to celebrate St. Joseph’s Day - Page 6

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Fava beans

These beans have an important role to play on St. Joseph's Day, and a priest may actually bless them. Tradition states that when there was a famine in Sicily the inhabitants prayed for rain and asked St. Joseph to intercede. The following crops of fava beans saved the starving people.

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