Er wurde am 2. Februar 1596 in Granada geboren. Als Teenager trat er in das Mercedarian-Kloster von San Laureano ein. Er nahm 1611 die Gewohnheit an, legte ein Jahr später die Profess ab, studierte Kunst und Theologie in Sevilla und wurde 1619 zum Priester geweiht.
Hernando de Santa María, Generalkommissar der Unbeschuhten Söldner, betraute Pedro de San Cecilio mit der mühseligen Aufgabe, den reformierten Orden der Barmherzigkeit zu historisieren, eine Aufgabe, die er mit dem Schreiben der Annales des Unbeschuhten Ordens Unserer Lieben Frau von der Merced Redemption of Christian Captives, veröffentlicht 1669 und 1985 in Madrid als Faksimile-Ausgabe neu aufgelegt. Damit war er der erste allgemeine Chronist des Ordens der Barfüßigen Merced (OMD).
Viele Jahre akribischer Forschung widmeten sich auch der Zusammenstellung und Vermittlung von Informationen über das Leben und die Tugenden der ehrwürdigen Mutter María de la Antigua, über Juan de San José, über die ehrwürdige Mutter Juana de Cristo, über den Kampf Ramón de San Francisco und Mutter Ninfa . , die er auf dem Generalkapitel vom 29. Oktober 1652 vorstellte, das in El Viso del Alcor (Sevilla) abgehalten wurde, einer Gemeinde, in der die Avenida Fray Pedro de San Cecilio – ehemalige Calvario-Autobahn – am 11. Februar 2017 eingeweiht wurde.
Die literarische Sorgfalt der Texte von Pedro de San Cecilio zeigt sich in den knappen Zeilen des Prologs zu seinem großartigen Werk der Annales: „Alles, was in diesem ersten und zweiten Teil geschrieben ist, ist zuverlässigen Instrumenten und Bullen entnommen, Konzessionen und Motus besitzt Schriftsätze und Dekrete der Heiligen Rota, Briefe von Bischöfen, Königen und Städten und viele Manuskripte, die Religion in seinen Archiven in Madrid, Sevilla, Ribas, Valladolid und anderen großen Klöstern aufbewahrt, sowie Informationen, die für verschiedene Seligsprechungen seiner Söhne und gemacht wurden Töchter“.
Die zwei umfangreichen Bände der Annales – mit eintausendzweihunderteinunddreißig Seiten in zwei Spalten und zahlreichen Randnotizen – bilden die wesentliche Quelle für ein detailliertes Studium von La Merced Descalza.
Er starb am 19. Januar 1668 im Alter von 72 Jahren im Kloster von Rota und hinterließ ein umfangreiches schriftliches Werk und eine Vielzahl handschriftlicher Nachrichten, die an der Universität von Sevilla aufbewahrt werden.
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