In 1892 he began work on the foundations of the Nativity façade because, as he said himself, "If, instead of making this decorated, ornamented and swollen façade I had begun with the Passion, hard, bare and as if made of bone, people would have stepped back." In 1894 the apse façade was finished and in 1899 the Roser door, one of the entrances to the Nativity cloister.