 We can think of it as prefiguring the many devout Christians who turn to this great saint and ask for his help in so many ways. The first Joseph won the confidence and the favor of Pharaoh and became the overseer of the granaries of Egypt. When famine ravaged the lands of neighboring peoples and they came to Pharaoh to beg for wheat in order to stay alive, he said to them, Go to Joseph, and what he says to you, do.