The three wise men which were first depicted by the brand in 1969 featured in high porcelain, Lladró's maximum artistic category, with attractive decoration. The Lladró brothers Juan, José, and Vicente presented the original pieces as a gift to Pope Paul VI when they visited the Vatican in 1969. Soon afterward, a man stepped on the moon for the first time and the pope, in turn, gave a king to each one of the three astronauts from Apollo 11 and spoke to them about the mission in which another three men were guided by a star to take a message to the entire humanity.