Nació en Granada el 2 de febrero de 1596. Ingresó, siendo adolescente, en el Convento mercedario de San Laureano. Tomó el hábito en 1611, profesó un año después, estudió Artes y Teología en Sevilla y fue ordenado sacerdote en 1619.
Hernando de Santa María, Comisario General de los mercedarios descalzos, encomendó a Pedro de San Cecilio la ardua tarea de historiar la reformada Orden de la Merced, empeño que llevó a cabo con la redacción de los Annales del Orden de Descalzos de Nuestra Señora de la Merced Redención de cautivos cristianos, editada en 1669 y reeditada en edición facsímil en Madrid en 1985. Por tanto, fue el primer cronista general de la Orden de la Merced Descalza (OMD).
Muchos años de minuciosa investigación dedicó también a recopilar e instruir informaciones sobre la vida y virtudes de la venerable madre María de la Antigua, sobre Juan de San José, sobre la venerable madre Juana de Cristo, sobre fray Ramón de San Francisco y la madre Ninfa, que presentó en el capítulo general del 29 de octubre de 1652, celebrado en El Viso del Alcor (Sevilla), municipio donde se inauguró la Avenida Fray Pedro de San Cecilio -antigua carretera del Calvario- el 11 de febrero de 2017.
El cuidado literario de los textos de Pedro de San Cecilio queda patente en las breves líneas del prólogo a su magna obra de los Annales: “Todo lo que se escribiere en esta primera y segunda parte ha sido sacado de instrumentos fidedignos y de bulas, concesiones y Motus propios breves y decretos de la Sagrada Rota, de cartas de obispos, reyes y ciudades, y de muchos manuscritos que la Religión guarda en sus archivos de Madrid, Sevilla, Ribas, Valladolid y de otros conventos principales, y de informaciones hechas para diversas beatificaciones de hijos e hijas suyas”.
Los dos voluminosos tomos de los Annales —con mil doscientas treinta y una páginas a dos columnas y abundantísimas notas marginales— constituyen la fuente imprescindible para un estudio pormenorizado de la Merced Descalza.
Falleció en el Convento de Rota el 19 de enero de 1668 a la edad de setenta y dos años, dejando una extensa obra escrita y multitud de noticias manuscritas, que se conservan en la Universidad de Sevilla.
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