Church Of Saint Joseph

This guide to the Church of Saint Joseph in Panama City's Casco Viejo centers on the Golden Altar, a towering baroque wall of gilded wood, and the legend of Fray Juan, the parish priest said to have faced down the pirate Henry Morgan in 1671. It follows how the priest is said to have disguised the altar in black paint and walked straight up to Morgan to ask him for alms, claiming it had already been looted. Look closely at the eight twisted columns rising in two levels around the carved Saint Joseph and Christ child while you listen.