Calle Fray Ceferino González

El Rastro·Embajadores

The street bears the name of Ceferino González y Díaz Tuñón (Villoria, Asturias, 1831 – Madrid, 1894), Dominican friar, cardinal, archbishop of Toledo and philosopher. He died in the Dominican house on this very street, then called Calle de la Pasión. The city renamed it in December 1894, weeks after his death, to honor the man historians regard as the founder of neo-Thomism in Spain.

Between Embajadores and the Ribera de Curtidores, a step from the Rastro, this street has changed its name three times. It began as Calle de San Pedro, already on Texeira’s 1656 map, and in 1835 became Calle de la Pasión, in memory of the Dominicans who regrouped here after losing their convent. In that Dominican house, in early 1867, settled Ceferino González, newly arrived from the Philippines. He set up a free school of philosophy, wrote the first great history of philosophy in Spanish, and rose to cardinal and archbishop of Toledo. He died here in November 1894; a month later the street took his name. Whoever walks it treads at once the place where he taught and where he died.

Its names

  • Calle de San Pedroanterior a 1656 – enero 1835
  • Calle de la Pasión11 enero 1835 – diciembre 1894
  • Calle de Fray Ceferino Gonzálezdiciembre 1894 – actualidad
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