Aniceto Fernández Alonso OP (17 April 1895, in the León province of Spain – 13 February 1981, in Rome Italy) was a Spanish Catholic priest and the Master of the Order of Preachers from 1962 to 1974.
Aniceto Fernández Alonso was born on 17 April 1895 in the town of Pardesivil, which belongs to the municipality of Santa Colomba de Curueño, in the province of León in Spain.
[1][2] The last year of Alonso's term as Master of the Order of Preachers coincided with the seventh centenary of the death of Dominican saint Thomas Aquinas.
[1][2] The event brought together more than 1,500 Thomism scholars from fifty nations and eventually evolved into the Thomas Aquinas International Society (SITA) of which Alonso was a founding member.
[1][2] At the end of his twelve-year term as Master General of the Order of Preachers, Alonso returned to the Angelicum University of Rome where he continued to study and teach about the unity between empirical science and philosophy.
In addition, capping a water fountain in the center of Pardesivil is a bust of Alonso honoring him as the hometown son who became Master of the Dominican Order.