Pope Honors Barcelona's Sagrada Familia as Masterpiece of Stone, Color and Light on Gaudí Centenary
Pope Leo XIV consecrates Sagrada Familia’s final tower as tens of thousands attend a Mass marking Antoni Gaudí’s centenary.
- On Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass at the Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona, Spain, commemorating the 100th anniversary of architect Antoni Gaud's death.
- Antoni Gaud spent four decades designing the temple as a summary of the Christian faith carved in stone, featuring treelike columns and natural light throughout.
- A total of 18 sandcastle spires rise from the basilica, including 12 symbolizing Christ's apostles, four for the Evangelists, one honoring the Virgin Mary, and the tallest Tower of Jesus Christ.
- Earlier on Wednesday, Leo prayed at Montserrat, a mountain complex featuring an 11th-century Benedictine abbey and a 16th-century basilica revered for its Black Madonna statue.
- The American Pope opened his day visiting Barcelona prison inmates, maintaining Pope Francis's tradition of ministering to those unable to join public celebrations during his weeklong visit to Spain.
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In Barcelona on the evening of June 10, a solemn ceremony was held to consecrate the tower of Jesus Christ in the temple of Sagrad Familia, the tallest tower of the famous temple consecrated the Pope's lion XIV. This took place on the 100th anniversary of the death of architect Antonio Gaudi, on which the cathedral has been built for over a hundred years.
A Pope, a century architect and a spectacular staging: Antoni Gaudí was celebrated in Barcelona 100 years after his death. Leo XIV also uses the occasion for a clear message.
Antoni Gaudí, the architect who designed the most visited attraction in Barcelona - the Sagrada Família church - was hit by a tram in 1926 and died due to a lack of immediate medical care, passing by confusing him with a beggar. On Wednesday, exactly a hundred years after the architect's death, Pope Leon XIV visited this masterpiece to offer a liturgy and inaugurate the tower that makes this church the highest in the world, CNN reports.
Pope Leo inaugurates new tower of Spain’s famed Sagrada Familia
BARCELONA – On his second day in Barcelona, Pope Leo XIV blessed and inaugurated a recently completed tower on the city’s renowned Sagrada Familia basilica, which is now the tallest church in the world. During the June 10 Mass and blessing, the pope called the Sagrada Familia “a visible sign of the invisible God, for whose glory its towers rise.” By design, the papal visit and blessing ceremony coincided with the centenary of the death of the b…
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