Fr Miguel was born in Tepatitlán, Jalisco, Mexico in 1976. He joined the Legionaries of Christ in 1988. From 1990 to 1996 he studied at the Immaculate Conception Apostolic School in Center Harbor, New Hampshire and in the Novitiate of the Congregation in Cheshire, Connecticut. In 1996 he was appointed Dean of studies of the Apostolic School in Leon, Mexico. In 2003, in Rome, he received his licentiate degree in Philosophy at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum with a specialization on Martin Heidegger and Thomas Aquinas on Truth. Since 2003 he has been working in different cities of Brazil with the spiritual and intellectual formation of future priests. He received his Bachelor´s Degree in Theology in 2006 and was ordained a priest on that same year. From 2013 until 2018 he served as Pastor at Saint Edwiges Catholic Church in São Paulo, Professor and Confessor of Diocesan Seminarians, Professor at the Interdiocesan Seminary, Maria Mater Ecclesiae in São Paulo with classes about Introduction to Philosophy and a Seminar on the Quaestiones Disputatae of St Thomas Aquinas.