The recent Year of St. Joseph (2020-2021)—designated by Pope Francis to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the saint’s proclamation as Patron of the Universal Church—aimed to recover Joseph of Nazareth’s pivotal role in the history of human salvation, while reframing it in contemporary tterms. In fact, among the outcomes of this yearlong observance was a veritable renaissance in the study of St. Joseph, together with an uptick in publications on the saint. One of the most fascinating, yet understudied, chapters in the history of the saint’s veneration in the United States is the key role that the Norbertines played. Apart from his presence in the universal liturgical calendar, St. Joseph does not seem to figure as prominently in the Norbertine spiritual tradition, as he does in that of other orders, such as the Carmelites, Franciscans, Dominicans, and Jesuits. However, the history of the Norbertines in the U.S. is an exception to this rule. Promoting veneration of St. Joseph was engrafted onto the Norbertine mission when the order’s first permanent foundation was made at St. Joseph's Parish, in De Pere, Wisconsin (1898), which was the site of the National Shrine of St. Joseph (the first in North America) and the Archconfraternity of St. Joseph, and where in 1891 Pope Leo XIII had canonically authorized the solemn crowning of the shrine’s statue of St. Joseph. This illustrated lecture will focus on this transformative episode in Norbertine history, drawing on, among other sources, the treasure trove of documentation provided by The Annals of Saint Joseph in the digital repository of the Center for Norbertine Studies at St. Norbert's College. Attention will then transition to St. Joseph’s relevance for foundations made from St. Norbert’s in the American Southwest and California, originally part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, which in 1555 was officially placed under the patronage of St. Joseph. This presentation will conclude by considering Pope Francis’s contemporary reframing of Joseph of Nazareth as the saint whom heaven trusted: a creatively courageous father, a man of robust interiority, and an embodiment of the tenderness of God.