Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect of insanely intricate, bone-like structures, was born on this day in 1852. When I was backpacking through Europe, I stopped by his La Sagrada Familia. You can read about it in my Church Hopping column on Burnside Writers Collective.
Gaudi was beaten and imprisoned when he showed up at a demonstration against banning Catalan. The language is now considered an endangered language.
Stephanie Nikolopoulos 