 He served at Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (Soledad Mission), Mission La Purísima Concepción (La Purísima Mission), Mission San Luis Rey de Francia (San Luis Rey Mission & "Luiseño" 'Mission Indians'), and Mission San Gabriel Arcángel (San Gabriel Mission & "Gabrieliño"—Tongva 'Mission Indians').For more than a decade, from 1812–1826, he was stationed at Mission San Juan Capistrano.He died at Mission San Gabriel in 1831, and is the only missionary to be interred in its cemetery among over 2,000 other mission inhabitants, mainly Tongva-Gabrielino Indians, buried there.