Paschal (Spanish Pascual) was born on May 16, 1540 — the feast of Pentecost — at Torrehermosa in Aragon to a peasant family. His baptism at the feast of Pentecost produced his baptismal name 'Paschal' ('of Easter/Pentecost').
From childhood Paschal served as a shepherd — the manual-labor Catholic vocation.
At the age of 24 (1564), Paschal entered the Franciscan Order at the Alcantarine Reform Convent of Loreto (the strict-observance Franciscan reform of St. Peter of Alcántara, see his existing entry) — as a lay-brother (non-priestly religious-brother).
Paschal spent the 28 years (1564–1592) as a Franciscan lay-brother — serving as cook, porter, infirmarian at multiple Franciscan Alcantarine convents across Valencia and Aragon.
Paschal became famous during his lifetime for his Eucharistic-mystical devotion — spending entire nights in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, receiving mystical-ecstatic experiences during the Eucharistic devotion, and undertaking the personal defense of the Real Presence doctrine.
In 1576 Paschal undertook a personal-diplomatic mission to Paris — travelling from Aragon to Paris as Franciscan messenger to the Provincial of France. On the return journey through Huguenot-controlled French territory, Paschal was repeatedly attacked by Protestant Huguenots — producing the famous public disputations on the Eucharistic Real Presence doctrine that established Paschal's Eucharistic-apologetic reputation.
He died at the Franciscan Convent of Villareal on May 17, 1592 at the age of 52.