He had a reputation as a preacher and was the author of at least one devotional work in Dutch.
[2] He entered the Capuchin novitiate in Brussels, under the novice master Felix van Lapedon, taking the name in religion Bonaventura.
As a young priest in 1603 he was made a prior and put in charge of the construction of a new friary in Meenen.
[3] In 1608 he became custos in Leuven and the following year first prior of the new foundation in Ypres.
[3] He was in the Antwerp house in 1611, in Brussels in 1612, in the Rhineland 1614–1617, and was appointed preacher and confessor in Ghent on 6 July 1617.