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Miraculous Staircase of Saint Joseph

A miraculous staircase in a Santa Fe, New Mexico chapel has mystified architects, carpenters, and the like. According to the professionals, the spiral staircase should have collapsed the minute the first person tried to climb it!

The building of the staircase all began when a group of nuns prayed a novena to Saint Joseph, and a mysterious carpenter showed up at their door. Stay tuned to hear the true story.

After three grueling months of travel by river and rail from Kentucky, four religious members of the Sisters of Loretto congregation reached Santa Fe in 1853. At the request of the bishop of Sante Fe, they opened a school for girls there.

By 1873, the sisters constructed a new chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Light to accommodate their community better.

But as construction neared completion, the sisters faced a problem.

Relative to its length of 75 ft. and breadth of 25ft., the chapel was high at 85 ft, so a staircase to the choir loft could not be built according to the customary patterns. One of the project’s architects had died, and the original plans could not be found. Various carpenters and other building specialists were consulted for a solution but didn’t know what to propose.

There was even talk of pulling down the choir loft. But nuns are known for their dauntless faith and trusting recourse to heaven when natural means fail. So, they decided to make a novena to Saint Joseph, the carpenter of Nazareth.

No sooner was the novena completed than a man knocked at the convent door. He had heard of their predicament, he explained that he was a carpenter and came to offer his help.

The sisters immediately accepted his offer.

He set to work with a few primitive tools, a saw, a hammer, and a T-square, which he brought with him on his donkey.

Laboring quietly and diligently, the unknown carpenter soon completed a beautiful spiral staircase. Made entirely of wood held together with wooden pegs, having neither nails nor screws, it ascends to the choir loft in two complete 360-degree turns with no central axis for support.

When he had finished the essential part of the staircase—everything except a handrail—the carpenter departed before the sisters could pay him and never returned. The Mother Superior tried to locate him in the area but looked and inquired in vain. No one knew him at all. She visited the local lumber yard to pay for the wood, but they knew nothing of such an order. The grateful sisters were not surprised; had they not prayed to Saint Joseph?

But architects, carpenters, and the like were certainly mystified. They came in increasing numbers to examine the technique that allowed such a tall staircase, with two complete turns, to stand with no central axis! They marveled further on hearing that the sisters and pupils regularly used the stairs. And so, the stairway continued to be used for a century.

The experts also admired the geometric perfection of its design, obtained solely with manual skill and rudimentary tools. They were no less perplexed at the wood used, which was unknown to them and the area.
But the sisters noticed and understood one aspect of the staircase completely. The staircase has 33 steps, significantly corresponding to the “perfect age” at which Our Lord expired on the cross for our redemption.

Today, the chapel remains intact, but now as a museum. Whatever the present status of the chapel, the staircase stands in silent and admirable witness to the faith and efforts of those pioneering sisters who dedicated their lives to raising hearts and minds to God.

Just as Saint Joseph bestowed his blessings on the Sisters of Loretto, I’m reminded that he has bestowed blessings in other ways, too. Such as at the final Fatima apparition, when he appeared to bless the world with the Sign of the Cross as he would have blessed the Holy Family.

So, although Saint Joseph is inferior in holiness to Our Lord and Our Lady, he remains the head of the Holy Family, and it’s fitting that his blessing was given to contrast the disorder among so many families today. Let’s pray to Saint Joseph that our work may be fruitful and our families strong against the allurements of the world and the devil's attacks.

Miraculous Staircase of Saint Joseph