He served at Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi from 1763 until the 1767 expulsion of the Jesuits from Mexico.
Joseph Garrucho, the Jesuit Father Visitor, assigned him to Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi.
In spring 1763, Ximeno traveled there in the company of his close friend, Francisco Xavier Villarroya.
[2] In July 1767, Spanish soldiers from Presidio Santa Gertrudis del Altar arrived to carry out the orders of Charles III by expelling the Jesuits from Mexico.
Many of the Jesuits died on the way, but a few, including Ximeno, survived to reach Cádiz in Spain.