Miguel de Molinos (1628-1696) was a Spanish priest renowned as the founder of the Quietist heresy. Trained at a Jesuit school and ordained in 1652, he joined the Valencia branch of a brotherhood called the School of Christ, which was somewhat aligned with the Oratory of St Philip Neri and had spread throughout the Spanish Empire.
In 1663, at the request of the king and hierarchy of Spain, Fr de Molinos was sent to Rome to encourage and report back on the process of the beatification of Venerable Francisco Jerónimo Simón (d 1612).
