دانلود کتاب Mother of the Saviour and Our Interior Life
by Garrigou-Lagrange, Réginald, O.P. & Kelly, Bernard J., C.S.Sp. D.D.
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last § (ref:21.1): "[The Predestination of St. Joseph and His Eminent Sanctity](http://salve-regina.com/index.php?title=La_Pr%C3%A9%C3%A9minence_de_saint_Joseph_sur_tout_autre_saint)"
His sanctity is intimately bound up with marital graces from Our Lady:
> The doctrine of St. Joseph’s pre-eminence received the approval of Leo XIII in his encyclical [*Quamquam pluries*](http://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15081889_quamquam-pluries.html), August 15th, 1899, ~~written to proclaim St. Joseph patron of the universal Church~~.
> "The dignity of the Mother of God is so elevated that there can be no higher created one. But since St. Joseph was united to the Blessed Virgin by the **conjugal bond** ( *maritale vinculum* ), there is no doubt that he approached nearer than any other to that super-eminent dignity of hers by which the Mother of God surpasses all created natures. **Conjugal union is the greatest of all** ( *coniugium societas necessitudoque omnium maxima* ); by its very nature it is accompanied by a reciprocal communication of the goods of the spouses. If then God gave St. Joseph to Mary to be her spouse He certainly did not give him merely as a companion in life, a witness of her virginity, a guardian of her honor, but **He made him also participate by the conjugal bond** ( *coniugali fœdere* ) **in the eminent dignity which was hers**."
Thus, St. Joseph's eminent sanctity is due to the graces of the sacrament of matrimony!