Jose de Creeft years of age, de Creeft took his first job earning pennies by carrying stone and sand at the construction site of "La Sagrada Familia", designed and built by the architect Antonio Gaudi. In 1895, de Creeft began modeling religious figures in clay to sell at the Festival Santa Lucia, Barcelona, which he fired at home in his kiln and sold near the steps of the Cathedral of Barcelona. Two years later he began his first apprenticeship with the craftsman and imagier, Barnadas who carved religious figures in wood. A year later, he was apprenticed at the Artistic Foundry of Masriera
FAMILIA (lay apostolate) the leaders and provides different helps to improve family life. FAMILIA usually exists as part of parish or diocesan structures in a variety of parishes throughout Canada, the USA, and the Philippines. FAMILIA (lay apostolate) FAMILIA is an apostolate, founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, designed to strengthen Christian family life. It stands for "FAMIly Life In America". As the director in Edmonton summarized it to the "Western Catholic Reporter", "Familia was put together from what Pope John Paul II said about family." Familia was founded in 1993 by Paul and Libbie Sellors as a four-year program of catechetical formation. The series