St. Michael’s Special School, a Catholic school located near the Irish Channel that provides education to people with special needs from elementary school and high school/vocational training to a graduate activity center program, put together a St. Joseph’s Day altar for the second consecutive year. The students of St. Michael’s Special School helped put together the altar in various ways. Many of the flowers seen, such as those forming the archway above the St. Joseph’s statue in the center of the altar, were grown by students at the school. Students in the high school/vocational training program helped make the large, cross-shaped loaf of bread seen laid out below the St. Joseph’s statue in the center of the altar, as seen in the third picture. Other students decorated the many plates of fig cookies laid out all across the altar. And other students contributed by making decorative paper flowers using a cut-out of a tracing of their hands, as seen in the last picture. (New Orleans, Louisiana 2015).