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Mystery of the Spiral Staircase

The Chapel of Our Lady of Light in Santa built the wooden staircase without the
Fe, New Mexico, is the home of a wooden use of nails, screws, or central support.
spiral staircase steeped in mystery. After some time, the staircase was
Actually, it is not the staircase that is complete and the carpenter left, without
the mystery, it is the lone carpenter who payment. The nuns planned a great feast,
built it... but no one knew where the carpenter
In 1852, seven nuns left Kentucky stayed or where he may have gone, even
travelling in covered wagons to Santa Fe the local lumberyard had no record of the
to bring education and religion to the purchase of wood. The nuns began to
growing city. Five nuns arrived in Santa believe it was St. Joseph himself, the
Fe, one nun died of Cholera, one turned father of Jesus, who built the
back too sick to continue. Once in Santa awe-inspiring staircase. Especially since
Fe, the Sisters of Loretto set up camp there were exactly 33 stairs, the number
and began their work. of years Jesus was on Earth before
In 1873, construction began on the Chapel ascending to heaven.
of Our Lady of Light, the chapel There have been a few who claim to know
commissioned along with Our Lady of Light who may have built the staircase. Some
Academy. The architect of the beautiful say Johann Hadwiger, a master carpenter,
gothic chapel was the charming and built the spiral staircase. He spent 2
talented Projectus Mouly,18 year old son years traveling and working in the west,
of master architect Antoine Mouly. Sadly, and after his death, his grandson found a
in 1878, just before it's completion, the sketch of a spiral staircase with 33
charismatic French architect was shot and steps in his old toolbox. Perhaps it was
killed by John Lamy, the nephew of the Francois-Jean Rochas, whose death notice
archbishop, because John believed his written in The Santa Fe New Mexican
wife received too much of the young newspaper read "an expert worker in wood
architect's attention. who built the staircase in the Loretto
The Loretto nuns were left with a chapel".
beautiful chapel and no stairway to the So who built the mysterious spiral
choir loft. It was determined that the staircase? Man or Saint? Perhaps the
staircase in Mouly's plans wouldn't fit. better question is, if it were a mere
Many architects and carpenters visited mortal man, does it really matter? Five
the chapel, but none could come up with a nuns, in 1878 Santa Fe, prayed for
staircase to fit inside the chapel someone to do what no other architect,
without remodelling the inside of the engineer, craftsman, or carpenter who
chapel itself, and taking up valuable visited the chapel before-hand could do,
space. So the nuns prayed for an answer and many visiting master carpenters and
to their staircase dilemma. architects to this day stand in awe of.
Here begins the mystery... after eight They prayed for a miracle, a master
days of prayer, an elderly carpenter with carpenter, and he came. An elderly man
a mule and simple tools arrived and said with his mule, his simple tools, and his
he could build the staircase. He alone humility.




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