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[edit] "Miracle or not"?? Who wrote this?
Another link, which in turn has a broken link to an archived news paper article, is [1] (search for "Loretto"). It aledges that the book "Loretto: The Sisters and Their Santa Fe Chapel" (ISBN 0890133980) explains much more of the true story, including that "The carpenter was Francois-Jean Rochas, a member of les compagnon, a French guild of celibate and secretive craftsmen. And he was far from saintly. Reclusive and irascible, he ended up dead in his Dog Canyon cabin, a victim of either suicide or assassination." —BenFrantzDale 22:41, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
- Someone with access to that book or a similar source needs to rewrite this article with some hard information. Currently, it stands as an example of what happens when you have true believers and skeptics collaborating on the same article. I removed the "unexplained" from "unexplained mysteries," since, according to the Inquirer article, the mysteries HAVE been explained. Lcduke 00:46, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
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- Today's About.com Urban Legends newsletter dealt with this. The carpenter is generally believed to have been Rochas. At his death a newspaper article ID'ed him as the stairs' builder...not too mysterious. As for the structure, the inner stringer is a spiral so tight that it almost functions as a veritcal pillar. And it apparently goes unmentioned in most discussions that the stairs are anchored to a nearby column with a metal brace, and that their structural integrity is so unsure that they have been off limits since the 1970s. PurpleChez 14:06, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
- Unsure of the "structural integrity"? It's faith based ;). 219.95.62.101 14:43, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
- Today's About.com Urban Legends newsletter dealt with this. The carpenter is generally believed to have been Rochas. At his death a newspaper article ID'ed him as the stairs' builder...not too mysterious. As for the structure, the inner stringer is a spiral so tight that it almost functions as a veritcal pillar. And it apparently goes unmentioned in most discussions that the stairs are anchored to a nearby column with a metal brace, and that their structural integrity is so unsure that they have been off limits since the 1970s. PurpleChez 14:06, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] ummmmmmmm
This article is entirely inconsistent. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.100.178.136 (talk) 21:39, 5 May 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Main issue left out
The central issue at hand with the Loretto staircase is the fact that it has no nails, no pegs and no central post. What is required is someone with enough expertise to explain how this staircase can withstand the weight of 10+ people standing on it without falling apart. The physics is the real deal, not the authorship. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MaestroNaj (talk • contribs) 00:39, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
