Loretto Chapel Miraculous Stairway, Santa Fe, NM Postkarte

"Loretto Chapel Miraculous Stairway, Santa Fe, New Mexico" von Catherine Sherman. The Miraculous Stairs in the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, attraktive Gäste from throughout the world. According to the Loretto Chapel zusammengestellt: "Three mysterien surround the spiral staircase in the Loretto Chapel: the identity of its builder, the type of wood used, and the physics of its construction. When the Loretto Chapel was completed in 1878, there was no way to access the choir loft twenty-two feet above. Carpenters were called in to address the problem, but they all final ded access to the loft wave to be via ladder as a staircase would interfere with the interior space of the small Chapel. Legend says that to find a lösung to the seating problem, the Sisters of the Chapel made a novena to St. Joseph, the boss of carpenters. Wir haben den "ninth and final day of prayer", a man appeared at the Chapel with a donkey and a toolbox looking for work. Months later, the elegant zirlar staircase was completed, and the carpenter disappeared without pay or thanks. After searching for the man (an ad even ran in the local newspaper) and finding no trace of him, some schlussfolded that he was St. Joseph himself, having come in answer to the sisters' prayers. Die Stairway's Carpenter, whoever he was, Built hat eine großartige Struktur. The was innovative for the time and some of the design considerations still perplex expert today. The staircase has two 360 degree turns and no sichtmeans of support. It is said that the staircase was built without nails—only wooden pegs. Fragen über surround the number of stair risers zum height of the choir loft and about the type of wood and other materials used in the stairway's construction. Over the years many have flocked to the Loretto Chapel to see the Miraculous Staircase The staircase has been the subjet of many article, TV specials, and movies". The Loretto Chapel hat Roman Catholic church, is now used as in einem Museum und einem Wedding Chapel gebildet. In 1872 Jean-Baptiste Lamy, the Bishop of the Santa Fe Archdiocese, commissioned the building of a convent chapel to be named our lady of light Chapel, which would be in the care of the Sisters of Loretto. The chapel was designed by French architect Antoine Mouly in the Gothic Revival style, complete with spires, buttresses, and stained glass windows imported from France. Although it was built on much smaller scale, the chapel bears an obvious ähnelt dem Heiligen Chapelle in Paris. Historians have noed that earlier churches of the period had ladders rather than stairs to the choir loft, but the Sisters did not feel comfortable with that prospect beursache of the long habits that they wore.