If you don't recognize his name, you might better recognize him as "the flying friar." When his meditative ecstasies resulted in a chronic levitation problem, he began to attract crowds at the friary to contribute their oohs and ahs to the spectacle. For this reason, he was confined to his room, which he turned into a chapel.
He is the patron saint of air travellers.
St Joseph had what we might consider a learning disability, which prevented him from ever learning to read or write. When his bishop came to do a round of ordinations, he only had time to ask St. Joseph one question, which just happened to be the one question that Joseph had stayed up all night trying to memorize.
Certainly much less competent men have been ordained.
Because of St. Joseph's great fortune at his final exam, he is also the patron saint of test takers, which explains the origins of the following prayer:
O Great St. Joseph of Cupertino, who while on earth did obtain from God the grace to be asked at your examination only the questions you knew, obtain for me a like favour in the examinations for which I am now preparing. In return I promise to make you known and cause you to be invoked.St. Joseph of Cupertino, Pray for us.
Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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