Toribio of Benavente, O.F.M.

(1482, Benavente, Spain – 1568, Mexico City, New Spain), also known as Motolinía, is a Franciscan missionary, one of the famous Twelve Apostles of Mexico who arrives 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 the challenges of Christian evangelization.