In addition to being a world-famous architect, Antoni Gaud\u00ed was a devout Catholic. His faith can clearly be seen in the details of his most important work, the design of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.<\/p>\n
Like medieval cathedrals, authentic Bibles in stone, Gaud\u00ed conceived the Sagrada Familia as a large catechesis. He took the altarpieces that are usually found inside the church and moved them outside where everybody could see the truths of the Christian faith. Gaud\u00ed wanted to reflect the early Christian Church, but with the progress and advances of the time.<\/p>\n
FR. GABRIEL C\u00d3RDOBA RODRIGUEZ Fr. Gabriel Cordoba is also a Spanish architect and wrote a book on the theology behind Gaud\u00ed's work.<\/p>\n He says that many elements have been gathered to show that the brilliant architect was a saint. He was a mystic and proclaimed God\u2019s glory through his works and his everyday life.<\/p>\n FR. GABRIEL C\u00d3RDOBA RODRIGUEZ Of course, he was also a defender of the faith, during those turbulent times at the end of the 19th century.\u201d<\/p>\n Gaud\u00ed not only sought God through architecture and his way of working. He saw God through the creation and all its people. Gabriel explains that Gaudi also inspired faith in others and continuously showed acts of solidarity to his workers, peers, and Barcelona\u2019s citizens.<\/p>\n FR. GABRIEL C\u00d3RDOBA RODRIGUEZ Antoni Gaud\u00ed died in 1926 at the age of 74 from an unexpected accident while still working on the construction of the Sagrada Familia.<\/p>\n The association that promotes the cause for Beatification of Antoni Gaud\u00ed has been working with the Vatican in order to declare him \u201cblessed.\u201d However, before this can happen, they need the pope to first declare him venerable and prove a miracle performed through his intercession.<\/p>\n Christian Campos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 31 2021. Antoni Gaud\u00ed's work not only expressed a different approach to convey God\u2019s creation through modern architecture, it was also a way to proclaim the Gospel to anyone who admired the facades of the Basilica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9c-PUpkUTOU","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bgaudieng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bgaudiint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Architect and Author
\nThe principal dogmas of Catholic doctrine are represented on the facades of the Sagrada Familia. Pope Benedict XVI said that Gaudi\u2019s ability to bring out the altarpieces, his three facades, and his 18 towers, made an ecclesiology. There, the church is proclaimed, and he reveals the glory of God through beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Architect and Author
\n\u201cGaud\u00ed was a person with a great intellectual capacity. He was a cultured and very knowledgeable person, but he was also a deeply religious and spiritual person. The expression of faith through the liturgy was fundamental for him. He was a person of daily communion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Architect and Author
\n\u201cI felt that it would be important to present a thesis that covers the entire building of the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia. I particularly wanted to convey that Gaud\u00ed, being a deeply religious person, was able to capture the beauty of what he lived and what he felt from God. All this inspiration came directly to him from God.\u201d<\/p>\n