Aurelio Ortega y Placeres

Aurelio Ortega y Placeres (1863–1926) was director of the school San Luis Gonzaga in Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico.

Ortega became a writer, educator and the director of the primary school San Luis Gonzaga located on the current "Calle Real".

), the school also taught those subjects corresponding to the trades of the time (carpentry, cabinetmaking, printing, painting, and embroidery for girls, etc.)

"[2] His sons, Aurelio, Domingo, Efraín, and Raul would go on to create the first and to this date, the only children published newspaper in Orizaba, "El Salvador de la Infancia," back in 1907.

Father Rafael Rúa y Álvarez in 1958 stated, "...from the lips of Don Aurelio I heard many times wise advice, when I was just starting my higher studies, I needed a manly voice, authorized by intelligence and goodness, like his, to guide my paths."