He served as the first prior of the Monastery of Saint Peter, in Arganil; the earliest documental evidence of both the monastery and Goldrofe dates to 1086, when nobleman Vermudo Pais (Vermudus Paes) and his wife Elvira Draíz left their properties in Folques in their will to Goldrofe and his religious community ("Sancto viro Goldrofo priori de Arganil, et Clericis ejus Religiosis").

Goldrofe died around 1098, with a reputation for sanctity; after miraculous cures soon after started to be attributed to his intercession, he began to be invoked against malignant fevers and other ailments.

[4] In 1190, when the Monastery of Saint Peter was transferred from Arganil to Folques, the remains of Goldrofe were exhumed for reburial at the new building.

The remains were put in a wooden coffin and laid under the main altar of the monastery; by the request of the Prior and Canons of the Monastery, Bishop Martinho Gonçalves had one of Goldrofe's shinbones removed and exposed for public veneration as a relic — it became a popular devotion to use this relic to bless water to give the sick.

[4] Following the reforms of Pope Urban VIII on the process of beatification and canonisation (Sanctissimus Dominus Noster, 1625 and Caelestis Hierusalem cives, 1634), Bishop-Count Miguel da Anunciação opened a formal inquiry onto the canonisation of Goldrofe in 1758, which was only concluded in 1791; the documents are kept in Torre do Tombo National Archive, in Lisbon.