When Jose Vital Catalino Rodriguez Rendon was born on 28 April 1805, in San Miguel, Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, his father, Jose Francisco Rodriguez Cierra, was 23 and his mother, Maria de la Luz Nepomucena Rendon, was 19. He died in his hometown, and was buried in San Miguel, Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.