Sant Gaudí and the Holy Crane and the Banc de Sabadell

The best religious news of this Holy Week is the possible sainthood of Antoni Gaudí. For him to rise from blessed to saint, it will, of course, be necessary to accredit two "miracles." They will be supervised by a medical committee (they could be a cure) and members of the Church. We're not talking about great miracles, like Jesus Christ turning water into wine (my favorite of all), nor about dazzling miracles, like those that someone like Magician Pop might seem to perform today. We're talking about more contemporary and subtle miracles.

Antoni Gaudí (Saint Gaudí, in future holy cards) declared that God had entrusted him with the Sagrada Familia temple. While this is plausible, we don't know if it includes the Subirats section and the city icon, the Holy Crane. Does it also include the queues of tourists that complete its delicate shape? I'd say yes, that those sinuous, snail-shaped tails, just as the future saint desired, complete the architectural ensemble.

Now then. If we're talking about an architect who has been sanctified because he created work inspired by God, let's talk about all the others. The skyscraper located at the intersection of Diagonal and Balmes and Paris, in Barcelona's Eixample district (listed, by the way, as having elements of interest), also seems to me to be of pure divine inspiration. It was built between 1965 and 1968 by Francesc Mitjans i Miró and Santiago Balcells i Gorina, who in my opinion deserve everything Gaudí will ever have. It was the headquarters of Banco Atlántico. In 2004, Banco Sabadell was purchased. For me, it's an incredible building, a skyscraper of its time, full of power and simplicity, which I like as much for what it is as for what I think it contains: bills and more bills (far from the takeover bid).