The Architect of God? Gaudí path to beatification.

The Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí could be our first saint in court, say for Architects. This is because a group of supporters and fervent Catholics are expediting the proposal would be the first to Gaudi Architect Santo.


81 years after his death, Gaudi continues to speak, and now more than ever with this process of beatification. The architect who died in a traffic accident, hit by a tram in the city of Barcelona on June 9, 1926, as a major project was the construction of the cathedral's most important Catalan modernism, the Sagrada Familia. This draft is part of the key arguments behind the Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, who leads the process to be approved by Pope Benedict XVI.

The reasons why consider Antoni Gaudi Santo are not directly related to having to live a holy life and professed a religion as servirdor of the Church, but the value will be primarily on the ability to host and bring the faithful to the Faith , through its architecture, its ability to intercede between God and all who profess the Catholic faith, through his work.

The followers who advocate for the beatification and canonization of Gaudí, argue that their great creation (the Holy Family), has made accessible to the common faith of the people, and inspired many others, that after his visit, have followed way of Catholicism.

One of the problems we must deal Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, and no less, is the key requisisto required for declaration of Holiness, which is to demonstrate the actual existence of miracles, or at least one or two appearances. It has recorded record of an occurrence of Gaudí, and this is attributed to a German artist who claims to have witnessed an apparition of a young Gaudí in his apartment in Barcelona. In the words of the artist "Guadi appeared and apparently wanted to tell something about the way they operated the Holy Family, but I could not hear him because I was with my earpiece posts, when I got the Gaudí disappeared." One of the cases are handled is that Gaudí would like to explain about the risk of the Barcelona route, which would be going too close to the foundations of the Cathedral, threatening to transform into little pieces all the effort carried out by more than 120 years.

Engineers Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT) have stated that the route of the subway line is a "senseless act of vandalism", and the manager of the Cathedral, Joan Rigol, said that the passage of this line can mean the kiss of death "of the work. With all this mess, it is hoped that the process of canonization of beatifiación and accelerated so that instead of having one as a souvenir subway station, take the finished work and also a San Gaudí.