The Loretto Staircase in Santa Fe is one of history’s greatest unsolved mysteries. In 1878, the Sisters of Loretto prayed for nine days straight, asking for a way to reach the choir loft in their chapel that had been built without a staircase. On the ninth day, a mysterious carpenter appeared, believed by many to be St. Joseph himself, the patron saint of carpenters. What he built defies logic: a spiral staircase making two complete 360-degree turns with no central support beam, constructed with

129K views · 4.6K reactions | Loretto Chapel miraculous staircase | Ave Maria | Facebook

THE LORETTO STAIRCASE The Loretto Chapel is located at the end of the Old Santa Fe Trail and is legendary for its “miraculous staircase.” There are actually two mysteries that surround the spiral staircase in the Loretto Chapel. The first is the identity of the builder of the staircase and the second is the physics of its construction. The problem that paved the way for this story was that when the Loretto Chapel was completed in 1878, it was built with no way to access the choir loft that was l

1K views · 26 reactions | 'The Old Red Coat' First composed in 1895, The Loretto School Choir provide a rousing rendition of 'The Old Red Coat' in today's Chapel Service. '...to the Old Red Coat, and the open throat, And the School where we can wear it, And we always shall bless the free jolly dress, And be glad that we still can share it.' | Loretto School | Facebook