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
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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