Pope Francis declared venerable the giant of Catalan Modernisme, who infused motifs from nature and Christianity into his Sagrada Família and other landmarks.

Antoni Gaudí, who designed the extraordinary basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, has been declared “Venerable”.

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome Pope Francis on Monday placed Antoni Gaudí ... a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. The process can take years, even centuries. The basilica marked ...

The Vatican has moved Antoni Gaudí, the architect behind Barcelona's famed Sagrada Familia church, a step closer toward ...

Initial construction began on the church in 1882, and after 143 years of work, architect Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece ... The sainthood process is called canonization. To begin the process ...

He designed the most famous modernist place of worship and his frequent use of religious imagery has seen him dubbed “God’s architect,” but is Antoni ... still in the process of being ...

Antoni Gaudí was the designer of La Sagrada ... are destined to be saints." The usual formal process for someone to be declared a saint would next involve beatification, one step short of full ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis has taken the first step toward making Antoni Gaudí, the famed architect of Barcelona’s Sagrada Família, a saint. On Monday (April 14), Pope Francis ...

Antoni Gaudí, creator of Sagrada Família, is declared Venerable by Pope Francis. Sourced from X : https://x.com/_Antoni_Gaudi_ On 14 April 2025, Pope Francis ...

The Vatican has put Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí on the path to sainthood ... The usual formal process for someone to be declared a saint would next involve beatification, one step short ...

Pope Francis has approved the decree recognising the "heroic virtues" of Antoni Gaudí, known as the "architect of God" for ...

Antoni Gaudí, the celebrated Catalan long nicknamed ... Becoming a saint is a complex process that can take hundreds of years, however, since a candidate normally needs two miracles to be ...