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
Loretto's Spiral Staircase
Loretto's spiral staircase was assembled by Roshas between October 1880 and April 1881. He had been born in France in 1843, and he died the day after Christmas Day in 1894 at the age of 51. Do you know anything else about Roshas and what happened to him after he built the staircase?
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