Radio Interview
Chile's Fundación Voces Católicas devotes an episode of its podcast «Enfoque Trascendente» to José Manuel Almuzara, under the title «Gaudí, el arquitecto y el creyente». The roughly forty-five-minute conversation explores the religious dimension of the life and work of the creator of the Sagrada Família and is available on Spotify and YouTube.
In July 2026, Fundación Voces Católicas, based in Santiago de Chile, devoted an episode of its podcast «Enfoque Trascendente» to José Manuel Almuzara. The programme was released under the title «José Manuel Almuzara | Gaudí, el arquitecto y el creyente» and was recorded in video format, accessible on both Spotify and YouTube. The conversation runs for around forty-five minutes, an unhurried span that allows the Catalan architect's spiritual biography to be explored calmly.
«Enfoque Trascendente» is the programme in which the Chilean foundation talks with distinguished guests about the great questions of the present, bringing together current affairs, culture and faith. On this occasion the thread of the conversation is the religious dimension of the life and work of the creator of the Sagrada Família. Almuzara, an architect and president of the Association for the Beatification of Antoni Gaudí, has worked since 1992 on the study and dissemination of the architect's Catholic faith. The very title of the episode —the architect and the believer— points to the heart of that perspective: in Gaudí, craft and faith cannot be separated.
The episode arrives in the middle of the centenary year of Gaudí's death —he died in Barcelona on 10 June 1926— and only weeks after the commemorative Mass that Pope Leo XIV presided over in the basilica of the Sagrada Família. Almuzara published «Gaudí, el arquitecto del alma» (Roca Editorial) this same year, a journey through the architect's life read in that believing key. The Chilean interview thus adds one more setting to an agenda that throughout 2026 has taken his testimony to media in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Reaching audiences in Chile has a value of its own for the cause of beatification. Antoni Gaudí was declared Venerable by Pope Francis on 14 April 2025, after the recognition of his heroic virtues, and the next step depends on a miracle being recognised through his intercession. Every new audience that discovers the architect as a believer widens the circle of those who can commend themselves to him, which is the path by which such events usually occur and are documented.
Fundación Voces Católicas is part of the international Catholics Voices network and works to give the Catholic faith a public, reasoned presence in Chilean society. That a programme of this kind should devote a full episode to Gaudí confirms how far the architect has become an evangelising argument in his own right, beyond the artistic and tourist interest his work arouses. For Almuzara, this is the ultimate meaning of more than three decades of work: that the Sagrada Família should be read as what its author intended it to be, an expiatory temple raised for the glory of God. The episode remains permanently available on Spotify and YouTube.