The Romanesque door of Saint Berenguer is the most austere of all the church’s Romanesque doors. Its name comes from the tomb of the bishop Berenguer de Peralta, which, although no longer here today, would have been located very close to the door, inside the temple.
Unlike the doors of the Annunciation and Els Fillols, which are highly decorated, the door of Saint Berenguer only presents ornamentation on the upper cornice.
Its most significant feature is the chrismon which you’ll find under the great pointed arch. A chrismon is an abbreviated drawing of the name of Christ in the Greek alphabet, where the letters overlap (χριστoς). Check it out! Start by looking for the x, then the r –which in the Greek alphabet takes the form of a p– followed by the i; you’ll find the s on the lower part and, finally, the letter t.
On either side of the name of Christ, you’ll see two more letters, the alpha and the omega, that is, the first and last letters in the Greek alphabet, which reinforce Christ's condition of eternity.
The presence of the chrismon, on both this door and the door of the Annunciation, served to publicly demonstrate the triumph of Christianity over the other religions or beliefs of that era.