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
Bishop Lamy's First Diocesan Bishop
Bishop Lamy was the first diocesan bishop of New Mexico. His early efforts were directed to reforming the New Mexico church. He also suppressed religious brotherhood societies within individual communities. The apostolic vicariet of New Mexico became a diocese in 1853.
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