 While a theological student he taught poetry and rhetoric at the college of Vaulx and as pastor of Herent was professor of philosophy at a nearby seminary of canons regular.In 1605 he came to the ecclesiastical seminary of Antwerp, taught philosophy and theology and later became superior.In 1608 he was canon, censor, and theologian of the church of Antwerp; in 1614 he was made protonotary.