The Loretto Staircase in Santa Fe is one of history’s greatest unsolved mysteries. In 1878, the Sisters of Loretto prayed for nine days straight, asking for a way to reach the choir loft in their chapel that had been built without a staircase. On the ninth day, a mysterious carpenter appeared, believed by many to be St. Joseph himself, the patron saint of carpenters. What he built defies logic: a spiral staircase making two complete 360-degree turns with no central support beam, constructed with