Catholic artists have welcomed an announcement from Pope Francis which is paving the way for the canonisation of the ...

Pope Francis declared the famous Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí venerable by recognizing his heroic virtues. This decree ...

Pope Francis declared the Sagrada Familia architect “venerable,” the second step in the beatification process. He still must ...

Antoni Gaudi, the designer of Barcelona's famous Sagrada Familia basilica, has been put on the path to sainthood by the Catholic Church, the Vatican announced Monday. Gaudi, nicknamed "God's ...

When an architect and an artist fall in love, you get more than a well-designed home—you get a life built on imagination, ...

Antoni Gaudí, the celebrated Catalan long nicknamed “God’s architect” for designing Barcelona’s Sagrada Família, has been put on the path to sainthood by the Vatican. In a statement ...

Antoni Gaudí’s life was abruptly cut short in 1926 after a tram accident. (Pau Audouard Deglaire /Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) The five others were: Father Nazareno Lanciotti, a martyr from ...

The interior of the Sagrada Familia, the unfinished basilica in Barcelona, Spain Trey Ratcliff / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The Sagrada Familia has faced the Spanish Civil War, fires, the COVID-19 pandemic ...

The Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, Spain. Credit: Trey Ratcliff – CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr. Known as “God’s architect,” Antoni Gaudí has been placed on the path to sainthood by Pope Francis and the ...

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has approved the first step towards sainthood for Mr Antoni Gaudi, the modernist architect behind Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica, the Vatican said on April 14.