Born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz) on 3 August 1946.

Died in Jerez de la Frontera on 18 October 2003.

He was born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz) on 3 August 1946 and was baptised on 14 August 1946 in the church of Nuestra Señora de los Angeles. His parents, Antonio and Mª del Rosario, had five children, and Antonio was the eldest.

After completing his studies with the Christian Brothers he stayed with the family, helping his father by working in the fields. On completing military service, he entered the Hospitaller Order of St John of God on 15 April. On 28 September 1971 he made his simple profession. Sent to Ecuador, Latin America, he made his solemn profession on 8 March 1978.

After a spell in Latin America among the poor and sick, he felt the need to specialise his vocational training. He returned to Spain, where he stayed for three years, during which he not only dedicated himself to his studies, but also practised his profession among the sick in Córdoba and Madrid.   In 1983, he returned to Latin America to the St John of God Clinic in Arequipa (Peru).  In January 1995 he spent two months caring for the wounded and burying the dead in the conflict between Peru and Ecuador, which, without officially declaring war on each other, had clashed to define their territorial borders; that same year he was appointed to head the Community at the St John of God Hospital and St John of God Hostel in Quito, a post he held for eight years. During this time, Brother Antonio set up and ran the Centre for the homeless, people with disabilities, needy families, helping to meet the moral and society around him. This was the time when Brother Antonio was to become very well-known for the works of charity he had established, succeeding in launching a national and international movement to raise donations for his work.

Due to his serious state of health, he returned to Spain on 10 December 2002 where he underwent examinations and tests at the Virgen del Rocío hospital and at the St John of God hospital in Bormujos (Seville), where he was diagnosed with an incurable disease.

On 30 September 2003, he was transferred to the Hospital San Juan Grande in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) with an inauspicious diagnosis due as the metastases had now invaded his body. Faced with this situation, Brother Antonio serenely accepted God's will, consoling his mother and his family by saying: "Mother, this is how it must be,., what comes from God must be accepted as it comes, with Christian acceptance".  

A few days later, on 18 October 2003, at the age of 57 and 32 years of Religious life, he yielded up his soul to God. His body now rests in the Chapel of Religious in the Jerez de la Frontera municipal cemetery. 

His reputation for holiness, recognised while he was still alive for his boundless dedication to the very poor, sick and needy people, is still alive today in the city of Quito (Ecuador) and in the Saint John of God Centre where his work of love continues  to welcome the poorest and the most needy people who are being cared for our Brothers, Co-workers and Volunteers.