Curriculum

He was a Benedictine monk who was very interested in the Celtic and Roman Galicia, as it can be seen in his works Disertación céltica and Disertación acerca de las antigüedades de Galicia. He was one of the most important apologists of St James of his time with his work Instrucción al público, o sea un Tratado diplomático, cronológico y apologético en demostración del Voto del Apóstol Santiago that is preserved in a manuscript in the archives of Compostela's cathedral. He also wrote important documents for the ecclesiastic history of Galicia and some observations about them that are also preserved at Santiago's cathedral.