Residence: Tumacácori

Race or Tribe:  Español

Notes:  Although his exact date of birth is not known, he was probably born in 1728.  He was tall, slender, round faced and swarthy with a heavy black beard, curly hair and small eyes.  He entered the Franciscan seminary of Nuestra Señora de Jesús in Zaragosa at the age of 17 or 18.  After ordination he went to a mountain top retreat north of Zaragosa.  He was recruited in late 1762 for the mission of 1763 in New Spain.  He stayed at the College of Querétaro for three and a half years.  In January of 1768 he sailed for Guaymas.  He came to Guevavi in mid-May, 1768.   Because of illness he went to Aconchi in the spring of 1771, but was back at Tumacácori by mid-September.  He left Tumacácori in the winter of 1771-72 and went to the College of Querétaro as its Father President.  He was the only priest in the northern Pimeria in 1768.  In 1770 or 1771 he transferred the mission cabecera from Guevavi to Tumacácori.