A group of nuns in Santa Fe, New Mexico in the late 1800s needed a special staircase built for their chapel, so they prayed a novena and a mysterious workman came and built it. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what makes the spiral staircase special, who built it, and whether it could have been St. Joseph himself.AI-powered
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Miraculous Spiral Staircase (St. Joseph, Loretto Chapel, Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Unsolved Mysteries - The Story of a Miracle Staircase
In 1990, the Sisters of Oredo dispatched seven nuns to bring religion and education to the frontier. No one knows who built this mysterious and ethereal structure in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The story is a little strange, but it's a little strange.
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