In the course of the research I was conducting for my PhD dissertation, and in the wider context of my own concerns regarding the state of sacred art, I contacted the architect Javier Caravajal Ferrer. Our conversations-his wisdom- animated many long afternoons during the cold month of January in Madrid. With an equal passion and knowledge Javier Caravajal addressed the modernization of the Spanish architecture within an international context, or from the perspectives of the illusions and excesses awakened by the Vatican II. The account of all these issues stemmed from the knowledge of someone that didn’t renounce to live but that instead chose to be the protagonist of his times.