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*[[Road to Emmaus]] - this account in the [[Gospel of Luke]] echoes the playful disappearance of the carpenter who constructed this staircase.

*[https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2010/01/17/famous-staircase-magnificent-but-far/23773878007/ Skepticism based on a theory that stringers were twisted into a helix]

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*[https://designedstairs.com/blogpost.php?u=amazing-stairs-loretto-chapel#:~:text=Although%20experienced%20staircase%20engineers%20and,craftsmanship%20from%20the%20time%20period. A blogpost that alleges the wood is spruce without admitting that it is an unknown subspecies and that there is no nearby source of spruce (the most common trees in New Mexico are Rocky Mountain Juniper, Ponderosa Pine, and New Mexico Locust)]

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