 In 1951, after 12 years working at the studio, he quit his job and moved to a ceramics factory in Madrid, and married in the same year.In 1955, the Catholic Church in Ecuador was seeking artists in Spain for the construction of the New Cathedral of Cuenca.They chose the Spanish ceramicist Manuel Mora Iñigo as their agent in Spain, and Iñigo contracted with Larrazábal for the creation of the cathedral's stained glass windows.