The Catholic Church began in 2003 to vet Gaudi, a visionary and pious Catalan architect who died in 1926. Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) Catalan architect c. 1882 Rue des Archives / Getty Images ...

Antoni Gaudí, the celebrated Catalan long nicknamed “God’s architect” for designing Barcelona’s Sagrada Família, has been put on the path to sainthood by the Vatican.