Pedro Cubero

In accordance with his missionary work, he undertook in 1670 a journey to East Asia, that eventually led him to complete an eastwards around the world trip.

In Asia he visited Astrakhan, Isfahan, Qazvin, where he was received by Shah Suleiman of Persia, Bandar Abbass, Surat, Goa, Colombo, Mylapore, Malacca, the Philippines and Moluccas.

He crossed the Pacific Ocean in the 1678 sailing of the Manila galleon, that time a carrack named San Antonio de Padua commanded by Don Felipe Montemayor y Prado.

The navigation started in Cavite on 24 June, they caught sight of the American land on 5 December in latitude North of 29 degrees and docked in Acapulco on 8 January 1679.

He finally reached Madrid in January 1680, just in time to attend the celebrations of the arrival of Maria Luisa of Orléans, recently married to King Charles II of Spain.