The industry of the Saints in Olot is the result of several factors:

In 1850, in Olot, the textile industry (cotton and weaving among others) was very important; this activity had its origins in the "Indianas", the Spanish emigrants in Latin America. As a result the town developed the basis of a craft industry.

In order to support this industry, the Escuela Pública de Dibujo, the Public School of Drawing had been founded (on the initiative of Bishop Lorenzana in 1783), and which taught the young apprentices the graphic arts of the "Indianas". The artist Joan Carles Panyó was later the director of the school for many years, and exerted a great influence on his numerous disciples.

At the end of the 19th century however, a period of religious resurgence, a movement already initiated by Balmes, which ensured that iconography became deeply rooted in Western, and especially in Catalan culture. The Vayreda brothers and their grandfather, Berga gathered this legacy and transformed it into a new business: religious statues. The founders of "El Arte Cristiano" took advantage of these circumstances and created an industry which at that time was both new and prosperous, so much so that soon afterwards many other examples of the same business emerged, with up to 20 factories at the beginning of the 20th century.

Currently the company’s goal is to share this cultural heritage that is unique in the world, with more than 2,000 models by world famous sculptors including Ache, Alentorn, Blay, Devesa and Llimona.