Barcelona, Spain, Oct 11, 2010 / 15:54 pm The Catholic architect, Antonio Gaudi, intended his unfinished masterpiece, the Church of the Holy Family in Barcelona, to be a sort of “catechesis ...

Barcelona, Spain, Jun 2, 2005 / 22:00 pm The Church of the Holy Family in Barcelona, the unfinished work of Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi, will be ready for worship in 2008 and its construction ...

What suddenly appeared before our eyes — the Sagrada Família (Holy Family) Basilica — took our breath away. The massive church is integrated into the tightly packed city so it did not come ...

Soaring above Barcelona, Antonio Gaudí’s church will eventually become the ... the breathtaking Basilica and Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family, paid for entirely by private donations and ...

“Gaudí saw his church as a kind of Lourdes dedicated to the Holy Family. The liturgies he foresaw would involve a bishop and 200 priests. It was pretty outrageous for his own time, but for our ...

In a joyful milestone for the church and lovers of sacred art ... Sagrada Familia is the archdiocese's Basilica of the Holy Family. Born in 1852, Gaudí started construction when was 31-years ...

Gaudí, who was a practicing Catholic, spent more than four decades of his life working on the Sagrada Familia, or “Holy Family ... ambitious proposal for the church of the future ...

“There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature,” Antonio Gaudi used to say. “Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.” In the application of his precept ...

2016 shows a general view of the current works at the Sagrada Familia (Holy Family) basilica in Barcelona, designed by Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi. AFP Vatican City: The Catholic Church has put ...

The Church began in 2003 to vet Gaudi, a visionary and pious architect ... unfinished monumental Basilica of the Sagrada Familia (Holy Family), which was consecrated in 2010 by then-pope Benedict ...

Gaudí, who created many one-of-a-kind projects, eventually renounced secular art and dedicated more than 40 years of his life to building Barcelona’s Basilica of the Holy Family, often referred ...