The portrait is surrounded by a crowded border composed of angels, who carry the attributes of Don Diego Ros de Medrano, such as the bishops mitre or the crozier.

[4] Diego's coat of arms also appears in stone on the façade of the chapel he built in Ourense Cathedral, however it additionally shows a tower in the middle, eight crosses of San Andres around the border, crowned with a hat.

[1] All this resulted in a lack of control over the clergy and the faithful, and that is why Diego Ros de Medrano distinguished himself during his tenure for the staunch defense of the rights of the episcopal mitre, especially its jurisdictional capacity, for which he himself made efforts to study Law and Sacred Canons, even personally presiding over the archiepiscopal hearings for years.

[12] "As all of Spain recognized his courage and great understanding, His Majesty chose him, like Gideon, as Governor of this Kingdom, hoping for its restoration under his governance.

"[13]There is no doubt that Don Diego Ros de Medrano had the support of Charles II of Spain, since, breaking with the custom of appointing the archbishops of Santiago as governors of the Kingdom of Galicia in case of substitution or interim, and being bishop of a smaller diocese, Diego Ros de Medrano was appointed visitor of the Royal Chancery of Valladolid "at a time when very serious cases and very difficult circumstances occurred in it," and Governor Captain General of the Kingdom of Galicia (October 9, 1686) replacing the Duke of Uceda, who had been given permission to move to the Court.

[6] Diego Ros de Medrano's death occurred in his see on 24, March 1694 and he was buried in the chapel of the Holy Christ of the cathedral of Ourense, which he himself had enlarged.

Doctor Don Juan Gomez de Escobar, Canon of the Holy Church, Provider and Vicar General of this Archbishopric, etc.

Funereal trumpet of examples, and of disillusionments, with which the Most Illustrious Chapter of the Holy Cathedral Church of the city of Orense publicly announced to the world the loss of the most famous hero ... D.D.

- by Dr. Jacinto Andres Phelipes (Granada, 1714)[15][16]In the city of Granada, on the twenty-fifth day of the month of January of the year 1714, His Most Illustrious Lordship, Don Juan Miguelez de Mendaña, Official of the Council of His Majesty, Bishop of the Holy Church of the City of Tortosa, President of the Royal Chancery, in view of the Approval of Father Fr.

[13] Part of Bishop Don Diego Ros de Medrano's funeral sermon reads: "To the Illustrious and Most Excellent Lord D. DIEGO ROS DE MEDRANO, most deserving Prelate of this Holy Church, who will always be mourned for his absence, accompanying the entire Kingdom of Galicia, which rightly still laments having enjoyed his governance and generalship.

Our Most Excellent Prelate Diego Ros de Medrano was born in the town of Alcalà, to which an ancient river gives renown, and besides that, Heaven decreed that his cradle be the waters.

Having completed the course of his studies with the common applause of all, and having graduated as a Doctor ahead of many, he went to the Crowned City of Madrid to serve at the Parish of San Nicolás.