Architect Gaudi’s cause for beatification advances
April 14, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Antonio Gaudi, the Spanish architect who designed the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, is one of several candidates for beatification or canonization whose causes were advanced by Vatican decrees issued on April 14.
The decrees from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints included:
- confirmation of a miracle attributed to the intercession of Eliswa of the Blessed Virgin Mary Vakayil (1831-1913), founder of the Teresian Carmelite order in India;
- confirmation of the martyrdom of Nazareno Lanciotti (1940-2001), a diocesan priest killed in Brazil; and
- confirmation of the ‘heroic virtue’ of Gaudi, who was born in 1852 and died in Barcelona in 1926; Angelo Bughetti (1877-1935), an Italian priest; and Petrus Jozef Triest (1760-1835), a Belgian priest.
The finding of “heroic virtue” means that these three candidates will be entitled “Venerable” and will be eligible for beatification if a miracle is attributed to their intercession.
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