ZSM-5- and β-zeolite-containing two-layered hierarchical catalysts (2L-Z and 2L-β) were prepared using a template of malic acid and novel three-layered hierarchical catalysts were also prepared combining mesoporous silica derived from the gel skeletal reinforcement (GSR) method with hexamethyldisiloxane (HMDS) - acetic anhydride (AA) as reinforcing agents. 2L-Z and 2L-β catalysts contained mesoporous silica of 50wt% and microporous zeolite of 50wt% and were called 2L-Z-(Z50) and 2l-β-(Z50) in which the amount of zeolite is shown in parenthesis. 3L-co-gel and 3L-mix, two types of three-layered hierarchical catalysts, were prepared by making GSR-silica in the presence of a 2L catalyst for the former and by combining GSR-silica-gel with 2L catalyst for the latter. 3L catalysts contained 50wt% of the 2L catalyst and 50wt% large-mesoporous GSR-silica and revealed three layered properties of microporous zeolite, small mesoporous silica and large mesoporous silica. Signals of zeolite crystals and amorphous phase were observed in XRD measurement for 3L catalysts. Both smaller size of mesopores and larger size of mesopores were observed in N2 adsorption-desorption measurement. Vacuum gas oil (VGO) was catalytically cracked using 2L and 3L hierarchical catalysts with the use of Curie point pyrolyzer (CPP) method. ZSM-5-containing 3L catalysts exhibited the lower conversions than corresponding 2L catalyst, kaolin-mixed catalyst and ZSM-5 single while 3L-co-gel-β-(Z25), which included 25wt% of β-zeolite, exhibited the highest activity among β-zeolite-containing catalysts. the higher selectivity for p-xylene in xylene mixture was detected in catalytic cracking using 3L-co-gel-Z-(Z25) and 3L-mix-Z-(Z25) catalysts. When the relative activity against XRD integral intensity and amounts of acid sites was plotted against average pore diameter derived from N2 adsorption-desorption measurement, the strong correlation was observed, suggesting that the intrinsic activity of active sites of zeolite could be related to the pore size of the whole catalyst.