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Yahoo
15-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Vatican puts Sagrada Família architect on the path to sainthood
Antoni Gaudí, the celebrated Catalan long nicknamed 'God's architect' for designing Barcelona's Sagrada Família, has been put on the path to sainthood by the Vatican. In a statement released on Monday, the Vatican said Pope Francis recognized Gaudí's 'heroic virtues,' which is a step on the path to sainthood. Becoming a saint is a complex process that can take hundreds of years, however, since a candidate normally needs two miracles to be attributed to their intercession. Finding those miracles will be the next step if Gaudí is to beatified and then canonized. Commissions of doctors and theologians then examine the miracles before the pope makes the ultimate decision to canonize someone. Gaudí is a rare case. Few artists become saints and no architect, in the modern understanding of the profession, has ever been canonized. Gaudí's legacy is intrinsically linked with Catholicism as he dedicated much of his career to the Sagrada Família – a church of such awesome splendor that it remains unfinished more than 140 years after construction began. He envisioned the church to be 'a Bible in stone' and designed a monumental structure with 18 huge, spindle-shaped towers, each symbolizing a different biblical figure – the 12 apostles, the four evangelists, the Virgin Mary and Jesus. When it is finally completed in 2026, the tower of Jesus Christ will stand at 172.5 meters (566 feet) tall and will be finished with a 17-meter-tall (56-foot) four-armed cross, making it the world's tallest church. Inside, the nave is bathed in multicolored light that streams in from every direction through ornately decorated stained-glass windows. Gaudí never saw the church anywhere near completion. He died in 1926, when only an estimated 10%-15% of the project had been built, including one transept, a crypt and some of the apse wall. Although Gaudí dedicated the remaining few years of his life and career exclusively to the Sagrada Família, other buildings bearing his distinctive style are dotted all over Barcelona, lending the city much of its character. For decades, there has been a movement calling for Gaudí's beatification, known as the Association for the Beatification of Antoni Gaudí. The Archbishop of Barcelona took up that cause in 2023 and submitted the positio, or key argument, for Gaudí's beatification to the Vatican. CNN's Jack Guy and Amarachi Orie contributed reporting.
CNN
15-04-2025
- General
- CNN
Vatican puts Sagrada Família architect on the path to sainthood
Antoni Gaudí, the celebrated Catalan long nicknamed 'God's architect' for designing Barcelona's Sagrada Família, has been put on the path to sainthood by the Vatican. In a statement released on Monday, the Vatican said Pope Francis recognized Gaudí's 'heroic virtues,' which is a step on the path to sainthood. Becoming a saint is a complex process that can take hundreds of years, however, since a candidate normally needs two miracles to be attributed to their intercession. Finding those miracles will be the next step if Gaudí is to beatified and then canonized. Commissions of doctors and theologians then examine the miracles before the pope makes the ultimate decision to canonize someone. Gaudí is a rare case. Few artists become saints and no architect, in the modern understanding of the profession, has ever been canonized. Gaudí's legacy is intrinsically linked with Catholicism as he dedicated much of his career to the Sagrada Família – a church of such awesome splendor that it remains unfinished more than 140 years after construction began. He envisioned the church to be 'a Bible in stone' and designed a monumental structure with 18 huge, spindle-shaped towers, each symbolizing a different biblical figure – the 12 apostles, the four evangelists, the Virgin Mary and Jesus. When it is finally completed in 2026, the tower of Jesus Christ will stand at 172.5 meters (566 feet) tall and will be finished with a 17-meter-tall (56-foot) four-armed cross, making it the world's tallest church. Inside, the nave is bathed in multicolored light that streams in from every direction through ornately decorated stained-glass windows. Gaudí never saw the church anywhere near completion. He died in 1926, when only an estimated 10%-15% of the project had been built, including one transept, a crypt and some of the apse wall. Although Gaudí dedicated the remaining few years of his life and career exclusively to the Sagrada Família, other buildings bearing his distinctive style are dotted all over Barcelona, lending the city much of its character. For decades, there has been a movement calling for Gaudí's beatification, known as the Association for the Beatification of Antoni Gaudí. The Archbishop of Barcelona took up that cause in 2023 and submitted the positio, or key argument, for Gaudí's beatification to the Vatican. CNN's Jack Guy and Amarachi Orie contributed reporting.
CNN
15-04-2025
- General
- CNN
Vatican puts Sagrada Família architect on the path to sainthood
Antoni Gaudí, the celebrated Catalan long nicknamed 'God's architect' for designing Barcelona's Sagrada Família, has been put on the path to sainthood by the Vatican. In a statement released on Monday, the Vatican said Pope Francis recognized Gaudí's 'heroic virtues,' which is a step on the path to sainthood. Becoming a saint is a complex process that can take hundreds of years, however, since a candidate normally needs two miracles to be attributed to their intercession. Finding those miracles will be the next step if Gaudí is to beatified and then canonized. Commissions of doctors and theologians then examine the miracles before the pope makes the ultimate decision to canonize someone. Gaudí is a rare case. Few artists become saints and no architect, in the modern understanding of the profession, has ever been canonized. Gaudí's legacy is intrinsically linked with Catholicism as he dedicated much of his career to the Sagrada Família – a church of such awesome splendor that it remains unfinished more than 140 years after construction began. He envisioned the church to be 'a Bible in stone' and designed a monumental structure with 18 huge, spindle-shaped towers, each symbolizing a different biblical figure – the 12 apostles, the four evangelists, the Virgin Mary and Jesus. When it is finally completed in 2026, the tower of Jesus Christ will stand at 172.5 meters (566 feet) tall and will be finished with a 17-meter-tall (56-foot) four-armed cross, making it the world's tallest church. Inside, the nave is bathed in multicolored light that streams in from every direction through ornately decorated stained-glass windows. Gaudí never saw the church anywhere near completion. He died in 1926, when only an estimated 10%-15% of the project had been built, including one transept, a crypt and some of the apse wall. Although Gaudí dedicated the remaining few years of his life and career exclusively to the Sagrada Família, other buildings bearing his distinctive style are dotted all over Barcelona, lending the city much of its character. For decades, there has been a movement calling for Gaudí's beatification, known as the Association for the Beatification of Antoni Gaudí. The Archbishop of Barcelona took up that cause in 2023 and submitted the positio, or key argument, for Gaudí's beatification to the Vatican. CNN's Jack Guy and Amarachi Orie contributed reporting.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Vatican seeks sainthood for Antoni Gaudí
The Vatican is seeking sainthood for Antoni Gaudí, the architect behind Barcelona's Sagrada Família church and much of the rest of the city. The intricate, pastel-colored basilica remains unfinished, nearly a century after Gaudí's death and 140 years after he began work on it, but it remains one of Barcelona's biggest tourist attractions. Gaudí himself was a devout Catholic: Campaigns to have him sainted argue the church's beauty has converted many to the religion. In a statement Monday, Pope Francis recognized his 'heroic virtues,' the first step towards sanctification. It would be ironic if it took time: Gaudí himself said to critics of his own slow work that 'my client is not in a rush.'
Yahoo
25-02-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
"Mes que una Cursa": Barcelona unveil 2026 Tour de France start
Barcelona will host the start of the Tour de France in 2026 with three days of racing unveiled by organisers and local officials on Tuesday showing off the Catalan region at its best. The world's greatest bike race will speed past the crowds of Spain's most vaunted avenue the Ramblas and take in some of Barcelona's architectural wonders such as Antoni Gaudi's modernist cathedral the Sagrada Família. Barcelona mayor Jaume Collboni said the city was honoured to welcome the July 4 'Grand Depart' after previously hosting the Olympics, men's World Cup and the America's Cup. "Today we fulfil a dream, the dream of seeing the Grand Depart of the Tour de France become a reality, a dream that Barcelona has pursued for years," he told gathered press in Catalan. The motto for the Catalan city's most famous football team is "More than a club" and the organisers latched onto this by calling their Grand Depart "Mes que una Cursa" ('More than a race'). A fierce struggle for the first yellow jersey will be decided in the form of a 19.7km team time-trial passing by the Olmypic port, the Sagrada Familia and ending at the Olympic stadium. This type of challenge would on paper at least suit Jonas Vingegaard's Visma outfit, rather than defending champion Tadej Pogacar's Team UAE Emirates. Stage two starts along the coast at Tarragona and runs back to the Barcelona Olympic stadium over 178km while stage three starts at Granollers and runs towards France to a finish which will be revealed in October with the rest of the 21 stage route. Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme mentioned former Spanish cycling greats Miguel Indurain and Luis Ocana, and described Barcelona as a shining city. He said he could hardly wait to "see the fervour of the fans as the race climbs the slopes of Montjuic," the mountain where Barcelona's 1992 Olympic stadium stands and which is now temporary home to Barcelona football club. After Copenhagen in 2022, Bilbao in 2023 and Florence in 2024 Barcelona's Mediterranean sea port provides the latest exotic backdrop for the globally broadcast extravaganza. The whole cycling world will gather in and around the city several days ahead of the race with the cream of world cycling, fans and curious onlookers alike and a huge tourist boom arriving fast on the heels of the worldwide audiences that tune in to the 21-day race in 190 countries. The remainder of the route will be unveiled in October and is likely to culminate July 28 on the Champs Elysees in Paris. The 2025 Tour de France will be raced exclusively in France for the first time since the 2020 race as it starts in northern captal Lille. jk/rbs-dmc/nr
