Francis’ visit to Asia’s most populous Catholic country was always going to be on a grand scale. Yet his direct style made Filipinos feel he was speaking to them personally St Joseph, the “protector of the Holy Family” as Pope Francis named him, was to provide a motif for his visit to the Philippines.“I would like to tell you something very personal,” he told 20,000 people at a gathering of families in the Manila arena on Friday last week. “I like St Joseph very much. He is a strong man of silence. On my desk I have a statue of St Joseph sleeping. While sleeping he looks after the Church … When I have a problem or a difficulty, I write on a piece of paper and I put it under his statue so he can dream about it.”  This image of St