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Stephanie Gilles
 

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Talk Overview

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Ar. Stephanie Gilles talks about her experience in Rome, the Eternal City, as the starting point of her career towards specializing in Liturgical Architecture, having been exposed to the elegance and grandeur of ecclesiastical structures, and having met Pope St. John Paul II on three personal close encounters. On one of those moments, she told him passionately: "Holy Father, I want to be a support for the Church in the Orient!" Little did she know that decades later, her support to the Church would be translated to designing sacred spaces, churches, chapels, columbaries, memorial parks, in forming the Guild of Liturgical Designers (GOLD) and the UAP Committee on Liturgical Architecture and Sacred Spaces (UAP-CLASS), that would have a direct impact on the Lay Professionals' contribution to uplifting the standards of quality in Liturgical Design, not only in our beloved country, the cradle of Christianity, but in other countries as well. She owes her yearnings to help the Church to this great man who had profoundly inspired her and other colleagues as well in his call for artists to reflect the Beauty of God with the work of their hands.