García was born in 1686 in Extremadura, Spain, entered the Society of Jesus in 1705, and made his final vows in 1720.
There were more than forty Jesuits aboard the ship with him, including Alexandro Rapicani and Jacobo Sedelmayr.
On 18 February 1736, they were shipwrecked on the island of San Juan de Ulúa; there were no casualties, and the Jesuits continued on to Mexico City.
[3] He also altered the Jesuit regulations on corporal punishment of natives in a 1747 order, raising the maximum number of lashes from eight to twenty-five.
[4][5] García's last known post was as spiritual advisor at the Colegio Seminario de San Gregorio in Mexico.