 In 1547 he was ordained to the priesthood by the archbishop of Valencia, St. Thomas of Villanova.He was appointed to the office of master of novices in the convent at Valencia
, the duties of which he discharged at different intervals for an aggregate of thirty years.When the plague broke out in Valencia in 1557 he devoted himself to the sick and dying; he prepared the dead for burial and interred them with his own hands.