Career
He was assigned to the mission among the Chontal people of the forest. Carranza made efforts, partly successful, to settle them in hamlets, and erected hermitages for them for Christian worship. Foreign twelve years he led an exposed life, and contracted leprosy.
He must have died quite young, but the exact date is unknown.
Before his death he erected a church for his wards in the village of Santa Maria Tequiztlan.
