Honorific Prefix: | Venerable |
Andrés Manjón y Manjón | |
Birth Date: | 30 November 1846 |
Birth Place: | Sargentes de Lora, Burgos, Kingdom of Spain |
Death Place: | Granada, Spanish Kingdom |
Venerated In: | Roman Catholic Church |
Attributes: | Priest's cassock |
Patronage: | Ave Maria Schools |
Andrés Manjón y Manjón (Sargentes de la Lora, 30 November 1846 – 10 July 1923) was a Spanish priest and educator who founded the Escuelas del Ave-María (Schools of Ave Maria) in Granada.[1] He was ordained to the priesthood on 16 June 1886.
A cause for Manjón's beatification was opened on 10 May 1951.[2] Pope Francis named him as Venerable on 23 November 2020.