Born of noble parentage to a Spanish mother and a father likely of Belgian descent employed by Albert of Austria.

Immediately after his novitiate, he began teaching his younger religious confrers as professor of philosophy and theology at the University of Alcalá.

[3] He soon took rank among the most learned men of the time, and was placed successively (1630 and 1640) in charge of the two principal chairs of theology in the university of that city.

He taught for 33 years No man enjoyed a greater reputation in Spain, or was more frequently consulted on points of doctrine and ecclesiastical matters.

So faithful was he to the traditions of his order and the principles of the Angelic Doctor that in his last illness he could declare that, in all the thirty years he had devoted to teaching and writing, he had not taught or written anything contrary to St. Thomas.