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Pope Leo XIV will hold mass at Barcelona’s iconic Sagrada Família where he will offer a papal blessing to the highest spire of what is now the tallest church in the world. The church’s newly completed tower of Jesus Christ now shimmers above the city as the crowning achievement of Antoni Gaudí’s extraordinary vision. NBC’s Molly Hunter reports for TODAY.
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Faithful line streets as Pope Leo to bless Sagrada Família on centenary of Gaudí’s death
As completion of 144-year construction nears, questions swirl over resemblance of church to architect’s original plansTen hours before he was due to pass by, the faithful were already picking their spots along the route Pope Leo XIV will take on his brief journey to bless Antoni Gaudí’s iconic church the Sagrada Família. It’s been a long wait but this evening, 144 years after work began, the pope will bless the basilica’s recently completed central tower in the presence of members of the...
Faithful line streets as Pope Leo to bless Sagrada Família on centenary of Gaudí’s death
As completion of 144-year construction nears, questions swirl over resemblance of church to architect’s original plansTen hours before he was due to pass by, the faithful were already picking their spots along the route Pope Leo XIV will take on his brief journey to bless Antoni Gaudí’s iconic church the Sagrada Família. It’s been a long wait but this evening, 144 years after work began, the pope will bless the basilica’s recently completed central tower in the presence of members of the...
Pope Leo to bless Barcelona’s towering architectual masterpiece
BARCELONA, Spain — Pope Leo XIV will offer his formal blessing to the highest spire of what is now the world’s tallest church, when he holds Mass at the iconic Sagrada Familia in Barcelona Wednesday. The event, the highlight of a weeklong trip to Spain that has already drawn huge crowds, is being held at the modernist basilica to coincide with the centenary of the death of its architect, Antoni Gaudí. The American pontiff has recently clashed with President Donald Trump over the war in Iran...
Pope Leo to hold iconic mass at Spain’s Sagrada Família cathedral
BARCELONA, Spain — Pope Leo XIV will hold Mass at Barcelona’s iconic La Sagrada Familia on Wednesday where he will offer a papal blessing to the highest spire of what is now the tallest church in the world. Sagrada Familia’s distinctive Modernist basilica has been under construction for more than 140 years but, in February, work finally finished on the central Tower of Jesus Christ, which stands at 566 feet high and is crowned with a gigantic five-story ceramic cross. The Mass in Barcelona...
A century without Gaudí: Barcelona celebrates the architect who turned the city into a work of art
The master craftsman of Catalan modernism created the architectural stereotypes that now draw hordes of tourists to Barcelona, which will not see his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família, completed in 2026 as planned. The episode is well known. At around six in the evening on 7 June 1926, Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was on his way to his daily mass in Plaça de Sant Felip Neri, a tucked-away corner in the heart of Barcelona’s Gòtic quarter where the dwindling local community, embodied by the children...