Carved by grace: How Gaudí led a Japanese artist to the Catholic faith

Carved by grace: How Gaudí led a Japanese artist to the Catholic faith

(OSV News) — As the Church enters Holy Week — when the stone of Christ’s tomb becomes a sign not of death but of the Resurrection — the life of Japanese sculptor Etsuro Sotoo offers a striking witness to how stone itself can become a path to faith.  For Sotoo, whose decades of carving at Spanish Barcelona’s Basilica of the Holy Family, known as Sagrada Familia, have shaped one of the world’s great sacred spaces, the slow, humbling work of sculpt…