{"id":83557,"date":"2026-06-11T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83557"},"modified":"2026-06-11T08:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:00:53","slug":"a-dramatic-basilica-for-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/a-dramatic-basilica-for-sure\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dramatic Basilica For Sure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Aleteia:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.en.aleteia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/pope-leo-xiv-holy-mass-basilica-sagrada-familia-jesus-christ-tower-barcelona-afp-000_B6NL6LY.jpg?resize=620,350&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Hero image\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"  \">\n<p>On Wednesday evening, the fifth day of his <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/en\/travels\/2026\/documents\/spagna-6-12giugno2026.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apostolic journey to Spain<\/a>, Pope Leo XIV\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/en\/events\/event.dir.html\/content\/vaticanevents\/en\/2026\/6\/10\/spagna-messa-sagrada-familia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visited<\/a>\u00a0the Sagrada Familia to celebrate Mass and then bless the\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/aleteia.org\/2026\/03\/16\/incredible-to-see-cross-finally-appears-over-sagrada-familia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tower of Jesus Christ<\/a>, which stands at more than 564 feet tall. Moving past standard tourist tropes, the Pope highlighted the basilica as a hub for popular catechesis deeply woven into the local neighborhood and the city of Barcelona.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ad_wrapper__B_hxA Ad_inread__uIRMY\">\n<div id=\"infeed_1_desktop\" class=\"adslot\">At the end of the blessing, the Pope sat down beside the King and Queen for a truly impressive light and music performance led by the tender voices of a boys&#8217; choir and a full symphony, and completed with drone-lights of Gaud\u00ed and fireworks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Aleteia: On Wednesday evening, the fifth day of his apostolic journey to Spain, Pope Leo XIV\u00a0visited\u00a0the Sagrada Familia to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83558,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83557\/revisions\/83558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}