Miraculous Spiral Staircase (St. Joseph, Loretto Chapel, Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Is the Johann Hadweger Proposal Doubtful?
Author Mary Jean Straw Cook investigated and tried to prove the Johann Hadweger theory as well. In 1995, she told the New Mexican, I tried my darst to prove his case, but I just couldn't cook said of the Colorado claimant. It appeared that the name of the man who actually built the staircase was Francois Jean Roshas; he went by the nicknames Frank and Frenchie.
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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.
