It gave it a great boost to become the first school in Cañete. Many wanted to study there. He also had a high opinion of his own educational center because - he said - it "hurt" when a fourth-year high school student - who is now a priest - told him in 1987 that he wanted to go to study at the Minor Seminary "because it was a better school. " Father Novato commented that if the student had said he wanted to be a priest or for another reason, he understood, but "did not accept" that the main reason was that his school was not so good.He suffered many contradictions on the part of some inhabitants of Cerro Alegre who did not understand his work and magnanimous objectives.When they told him that a new priest was very good at preaching or confessing, he would say: "a new broom sweeps well, but the old one knows where the garbage is."He preached very well. With a lot of logic and grace.He smoked a lot and ate sausages, which the doctors had forbidden him, but he always said that you have to die of something. And so it was in 2004. His body is in the crypt of the Sanctuary of the Mother of Beautiful Love and his soul will be telling many jokes to all his friends in heaven.