{"id":182253,"date":"2026-03-24T16:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raed.academy\/?p=182253"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:15:06","slug":"images-and-testimonies-of-the-sagrada-familia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raed.academy\/en\/images-and-testimonies-of-the-sagrada-familia\/","title":{"rendered":"Images and testimonies of the Sagrada Familia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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10th edition of \u201cSent la creu\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Guillermo Sim\u00f3n Castellv\u00ed<\/strong>, a member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia<\/strong>, of the Spanish Society of Ophthalmology<\/strong> and of the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations<\/strong>, and a collaborator of the Royal European Academy of Doctors<\/strong> (READ), shares with the academic community the photo galleries he published in the digital newspaper El Debate<\/strong> on 25 February and 10 March, both set in the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, a temple to which the amateur photographer has devoted particular attention. In fact, Sim\u00f3n Castellv\u00ed had already shared his recent photo galleries with the academic community, documenting the beginning of the installation of the cross crowning the basilica and the completion of the assembly of its arms.<\/p>\n

On this occasion, his focus was on a new edition\u2014the tenth\u2014of \u201cFeel the Cross,\u201d<\/em> a Eucharistic celebration that seeks to recall the persecution suffered by many Christians around the world today. This time, the spotlight was on Cameroon, with the presence of the Bishop of Yagoua, Barth\u00e9lemy Yaouda Hourgo<\/strong>. As journalist Guillermo Altarriba<\/strong> explains in the accompanying report, the celebration took place on the first Sunday of Lent, as is customary, and featured a white wooden cross symbolising the suffering of Christians in the African country. In previous years, crosses from Lampedusa, Mosul, Cambodia, Bangassou, Venezuela, the Philippines, Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, and Syria had been brought.<\/p>\n

\u201cBishop Yaouda described with stark clarity the situation his people are experiencing: \u2018The terrorists entered and the first thing they did was cut the throats of Christians. They also burn homes and fields, and even churches with people inside, so that everyone submits to what they impose.\u2019 However, the bishop also pointed out the paradox experienced in Cameroon: despite persecution, insecurity, fragility and poverty, churches in the country are full. \u2018Despite the cross, there is resurrection, and Christians pray, forgive and rebuild because they live with joy,\u2019\u201d Altarriba reports in his chronicle.<\/p>\n

The second photo gallery once again documents the construction progress on the temple, with the unveiling of the great cross that has made it the tallest church in Christendom. \u201cAfter several days of removing the scaffolding that had until now covered it, the radiant cross crowning the Tower of Jesus Christ of the Sagrada Familia can now be seen from all over Barcelona. The six-pointed cross, covered in glass and white enamelled ceramic, measures 17 metres in height and 13.5 metres in width. The scaffolding no longer obstructs the view of the cross crowning the temple designed by Antoni Gaud\u00ed<\/strong>, which was completed less than three weeks ago, on 20 February, becoming the highest point on Barcelona\u2019s skyline and the culmination of the tallest church in the world, at 172.5 metres in height, surpassing the 161.53 metres of the spire of Ulm Minster in Germany,\u201d Altarriba explains.<\/p>\n

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Guillermo Sim\u00f3n Castellv\u00ed<\/p><\/div>\n