In Madrid building a Cathedral out of junk

The great cathedrals of the world, such as Cologne or Nordam de Paris, built by generations of people, thousands and thousands of generations. But in Madrid, worth nearly finished large size Church, the creation of which have spent only one man. And he built from ordinary building materials, and almost out of the trash.



Densely Martinez – not the architect and not the Builder. In any case, on education. All his life he worked as a farmer until old age did not want to go to the monastery. But fate did not allow him long to be one of the brothers of the Benedictine. After a couple of years after the adoption of the tonsure, he found out suffering from tuberculosis and for this reason made his vow.

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However, he made a promise to myself that if I recover, will build the temple of the Lord. After recovering from tuberculosis, Martinez began to fulfill that vow. But the money from a former farmer. And this Thickly began to build a Church from scrap materials. He began to walk through the ruins of homes and factories, to collect the old bricks and tiles.

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It's been nearly 50 years since the start of construction. Unusual temple, which is Densely Martinez was taken to St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, reached a height of 50 m

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