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
The Spiral Staircase
Unsolved Mysteries: The mystery of the staircase in Loretto Chapel, New Mexico. Could it have been St. Joseph or an angel? Or was it a mortal man from here on earth? There has been more than one proposal as to who might have built it. In 1970, Oscar Hadweger found what he felt was proof inside his grandfather's toolbox. All that exists today is this photocopy of the drawing which has since disappeared.
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