This is deduced by the ties that united it with this city, in fact Alfonso de Bolaños entered his youth in a Burgos convent, although other sources believe that he could have been Andalusian.
The Pope's support for his company led to tensions with the Franciscan Vicariate and with Diego de Herrera, lord of the Canary Islands, who considered him an intruder in his domains.
[citation needed] After being named Sixtus IV as the new Pope, Alfonso de Bolaños went to Rome to present the fruits of his evangelizing project.
In the report presented to the Pope, Bolaños claims to have "converted thousands of pagans", a figure considered by current analysts as exaggerated but necessary to continue counting on papal support.
In any case, when the conquest of Tenerife commanded by Alonso Fernández de Lugo between 1494 and 1496 took place a few decades after his death, practically all of the south of the island was already evangelized.