 He was senior master of works of the city and the bishopric, charged with repairing the diocese's mills.Towards the end of his life he was ruined, and he died in anonymity.On the day before he died he signed a codicil to his will in which he declared that he was impoverished and the city of Cordoba owed him twenty thousand reais for his work on the Visos road and the Bridge of Alcolea.