He was the son of D. Juan González de Sandoval, Governor of the State of the Admiral of Castilla in Sicily, and Guest of the Infante Cardenal D.

[3] The sergeant major Gabriel Gómez de Sandoval, a native of the town and court of Madrid, made a career in Bogotá, where he began to build the Sagrario chapel in 1656.

The sumptuousness with which the building was built, made possible by a great economic waste, led to the glowing praise of locals and strangers.

[5] He made more than fifty paintings to decorate the chapel (of which thirty-six are preserved), commissioned by Gómez de Sandoval.

[6] On August 15, 1819, the army headed by the liberator Simón Bolívar was received in the Chapel of the Tabernacle with the singing of the Te Deum and a solemn mass in gratitude for the victory in the Battle of Boyacá.