Justo Pérez de Urbel
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Procurador Fray Justo Pérez de Urbel |
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In office 16 March 1942 – 1967 |
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| Born |
Justo Pérez Santiago August 7, 1895 Pedrosa de Río Úrbel, Burgos, Spain |
| Died | 1979 (aged 83–84) Cuelgamuros, Madrid, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Political party |
FET y de las JONS 
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| Occupation | Benedictine clergyman, medievalist |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Justo Pérez Santiago (August 7, 1895 – 1979) later known as Fray Justo Pérez de Urbel y Santiago O.S.B. was a Spanish Roman Catholic clergyman (Order of Saint Benedict) and medievalist, first abbot of the Monastery of the Holy Cross of the Valle de los Caídos, member of the Consejo Nacional del Movimiento (the first quasi-parliamentary assembly of Francoist Spain), later a Procurador en Cortes (member of the longer-lived Francoist assembly established after the end of the Spanish Civil War) and distinguished scholar of medieval Castile.
Born 1895 in Pedrosa de Río Úrbel,Burgos, Spain, Pérez Santiago entered the monastic school of the nearby Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos at age 12 in 1907. He enrolled in the order in 1912, and was ordained 25 August 1918. He was already a well-known religious and historical writer during the era of the Second Spanish Republic.
In mid-1938, during the Spanish Civil War, the Nationalists established the headquarters of their Women's Section in the Salesian convent of Burgos. At that time, Pilar Primo de Rivera sought someone capable of leading the spiritual organization of the religious life of that organization. Severino Aznar, father of Agustín Aznar, commented that at the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos there was a spiritual and erudite monk who would doubtless be good for the job. Pilar took this counsel, proposing Pérez Santiago's candidature to abbot Luciano Serrano.
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