The idea for the building began in 1882 when a small group of Catholic devotees of the Saint Joseph (the husband ... the research up for use on the Sagrada Familia. On July 17, 1936, ten years ...

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, the celebrated Catalan long nicknamed “God’s architect” for designing Barcelona’s Sagrada Família ... Becoming a saint is a complex process that can take hundreds of ...

Here & Now's Scott Tong talks with Pope Francis biographer Austen Ivereigh about why the architect of the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona's famed basilica, might become a saint.