Biography
Pedro Páez Xaramillo, one of the most notable members of the Society of Jesus, was born in Olmedo de las Cebollas in 1564 to a noble Castilian family. On 18 June 1584, he was admitted into the Society of Jesus at the house of probation in Villarejo de Fuentes, Cuenca. From about 1584 to 1587, he studied philosophy at the Jesuit college of Belmonte, Cuenca, where he esta…