Calle del Padre Jesús Ordóñez

Jesús Ordóñez Ancín was born in Torres del Río, Navarre, in 1903. He earned a doctorate in Theology in Rome. He himself stammered, and out of that experience he developed a system of speech re-education he called the orthophonic convergence method. In the district of Eulate he set up an academy to overcome stammering, and the recognition he won there took him to Madrid, where he ran the Official School of Orthophony and founded the Institute of Speech Disorders. They called him “the priest of stammerers,” and he left several books on the subject, among them La tartamudez vencida. He died in Madrid in 1963, and the city gave his name to this street in Prosperidad, a neighborhood born in 1862 from the division of old rural estates. Among its numbers a few low houses with courtyards still survive, a legacy of the outlying district it once was.