From that moment until the end of his life, he was re-elected in a total of fifteen elections, adhering to conservative Catholic views.

At the end of the year, in Rome, he met with Pope Leo XIII and then with King Alfonso XII, who were interested in attracting Spanish Catholics to their policies.

He paid special attention to education issues, signed a resolution directed against the reformist aspirations of university representatives, and also initiated the expansion of the public works system and the construction of a railway through the Puerto de Pajares.

On 18 January 1902, he resigned as ambassador in response to the draft amendment to change the Concordat, promoted by the Sagasta government, and returned to Madrid.

[5] In 1868 he married Ignacia Bernaldo de Quirós y González-Cienfuegos, daughter of the Marquis of Camposagrado, with whom he would have fifteen children, of whom thirteen survived, including :