nutius

Updated: May 26, 2025

There is a full account of his life and adventures in Acta Sanctorum. St. Joseph died, as we saw, in 1663, but the earliest biography of him, in Italian, was not published till fifteen years later, in 1678. Unluckily the compiler of his legend in the Acta Sanctorum was unable to procure this work, by Nutius, which might contain a comparatively slight accretion of myths.

Andrew Lang - Cock Lane and Common-Sense