But Gaudi is best understood by placing him in ... He embellished his edifices with replicas of soaring trees, multicolored lizards and fossilized bones, and he fitted his structures with ...

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 Gaudí worthy of becoming a saint?

In 1926 Gaudí was struck by a tram while walking to church for prayer. Assumed to be a beggar the unconscious Gaudi did not receive immediate care and was eventually taken to a hospital for the ...

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

VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church has put Antoni Gaudi, the designer of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica nicknamed “God’s architect”, on the path to sainthood, the Vatican said on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

George Rau Jr. brought 10 Wall Lizards from Lake Garda, Italy, to Cincinnati in 1951, and 70 years later, the city has an ever-growing population Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

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 ...

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