Jose de Creeft years of age, de Creeft took his first job earning pennies by carrying stone and sand at the construction site of "La Sagrada Familia", designed and built by the architect Antonio Gaudi. In 1895, de Creeft began modeling religious figures in clay to sell at the Festival Santa Lucia, Barcelona, which he fired at home in his kiln and sold near the steps of the Cathedral of Barcelona. Two years later he began his first apprenticeship with the craftsman and imagier, Barnadas who carved religious figures in wood. A year later, he was apprenticed at the Artistic Foundry of Masriera
Mascarita Sagrada (2007) to leave AAA, to work for rival Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) under the name Mascarita Dorada. Following Mascarita Sagrada's departure AAA introduced a new Mascarita Sagrada, sometimes referred to as "Mascarita Sagrada 2007" in text, although never publicly announced as such. Since the new Mascarita Sagrada's true identity is not a matter of public knowledge it is not known what identity he previously wrestled before taking over the Mascarita Sagrada persona in 2007. He made his AAA debut at the first Antonio Peña Memorial Show on October 7, 2007, where he wrestled in an "AAA Special" "Relevos Atómicos