Wow, who knew that the famed architect Antoni Gaudí also had superpowers?
Quote:Maria Gil Jimenez was very unwell. One day in 2003, she visited the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona and said a prayer over the tomb of Antoni Gaudí, the modernist architect who designed it. She asked him to help find her a new kidney.
The next day, the hospital called. A kidney was available. “If this isn’t a miracle, I don’t know what is,” she testified in writing to an association which has been campaigning since 1992 to have Gaudí canonised.
A career in architecture may not seem an obvious path to godliness, besides all the building skywards. But the Association for the Beatification of Antoni Gaudí has changed this perception. On Monday, the Pope praised the visionary Catalan architect’s “heroic virtues” and elevated him to “venerable” status, the second step on the road to sainthood.
A range of saintly acts have already been attributed to Gaudí, who was born in 1852 and died aged 73 in 1926. Almost a century later, he has been credited with warding off cataracts, retrieving lost objects and finding jobs for the unemployed, according to the written testimony of Catholics supporting his sainthood.
Patricia Campi, from Italy, wrote to the association that she had been able to buy her dream home after it came on the market shortly after she prayed to Gaudí, “knowing he was an architect who might also help me redesign the property”.
A photograph of Gaudí accompanying a newspaper article about him moved Monica Appel from Chile to pray for his help in finding a job for her unemployed husband. Within days he was back at work.
Jorge Anselmo, from Argentina, said his mother was close to death by pulmonary disease when he decided to “put her in the hands of the architect”, praying for Gaudí to save her. The patient soon bounced back from the abyss.
Sandro Rondena, an Italian architect with cancer, had been given months to live. His wife and children prayed for Gaudí’s intercession in the Sagrada Familia’s crypt. Returning to Italy, Rondena’s advanced cancer was found to have gone into remission.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/ar...0centuries.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
