Francisco was the only child in a farm family. He married at the age of eighteen, but became a widower just sixteen months later. He then followed a call to religious life as a Franciscan friar at the convent of St. Miquel d’Escornalbou, making his religious profession 14 July 1641, and taking the name of Bonaventura. Over the next seventeen years he served in various Franciscan convents...