The Mysterious Staircase

City of Santa Fé, in New Mexico, USA.

A mystery of over 130 years and attracting around 250 thousand

visitors every year. Point of attention : Loretto Chapel

What makes this chapel different from all others is that the subject of

the supposed miracle that took place in it is a Staircase

A chapel was constructed somewhere in hte 19th century. When

it was ready, the nuns found that there was no staircase built to take

them to the top level

They spent 9 days praying to St. Joseph, who was a carpenter.

On the last day, a stranger knocked at their door and said that he was a carpenter who could help them build

the staircase.

He constructed the staircase, all by himself, which was considered to

be the pride of carpentery.

None knew how the staircase could stand by itself as it did not

have a central support.

Then the carpenter, who did not use a single nail or glue to construct this staircase, disappeared without even

waiting for his payment.

There was a rumour in the city of Santa Fé, that the carpenter was

St. Joseph himself ...

...sent by Jesus Christ to attend to the nuns’ problem. Since then, the staircase was known to be called “miraculous” and turned

out to be the site for pilgrimage.

There are 3 mysteries in this case, says the spokesman of the chapel : the 1st mystery is that, until today, the identity of this

man is not known.

The second mystery – all the architects, engineers and

scientists say that they cannot understand how this staircase

can balance without any central support.

And the 3rd mystery – from where did the wood come? They have

checked and found out that the type of wood used to build the staircase does not exist in the entire region

There is another detail that has just increased the belief in the

supposed miracle : The staircase has 33 steps, the age of Jesus

Christ.

M. G a llo