# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/toribio-de-benavente
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:27:22.989Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/toribio-de-benavente"
name: "Toribio de Benavente"
slug: "toribio-de-benavente"
description: "Toribio of Benavente, also known as Motolinía, was a Franciscan missionary and one of the famous Twelve Apostles of Mexico who arrived in New Spain in May 1524. His published writings are a key source for the history and ethnography of the Nahuas of central Mexico in the immediate post-conquest period as well as for the challenges of Christian evangelization."
tagline: "Spanish Friar Minor, Catholic missionar in Mexico, Novohispanic mesoamericanist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FrayToribioDeBenavente.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "ES"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1482"
deathDate: "1568"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.337099811676081
  historical:           13.62002133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump