Peter of the Mother of God was born in Daroca (Zaragoza ─ Spain) in 1565.
He made his profession in Pastrana on 23rd of January 1583 and around 1590, still a deacon, he was sent to Italy as a companion for Fr. John of St Jerome, the Procurator General of the Spanish Congregation in Rome. His first commitment was to help the Procurator, who was also in charge of shopping at the market. This gave him the opportunity to mingle among the people and to master the language, which is indispensable for someone like him born as an orator.
From 1593 to 1595 he was sent to the house of St. Anne in Genoa. In 1596, at the invitation of Cardo Pinelli, protector of the Order, he returned to Rome again to preach Lent. His sermons produced such an effect in the Eternal City that Pope Clement VIII later appointed him Apostolic Preacher, an office in which Leo XI and Paul V confirmed him.
On August 26, 1608 in Nocera Umbra in the monastery of the Conventual Fathers, where he was by order of the Pope to cure himself of his many annoying evils, he gave his soul to God at the age of just 43 years.
