Our University Antonio Ruiz de Montoya is named after a Lima illustrious Jesuit, who along with other Jesuits founded the reductions of Paraguay, being also ethnologist, linguist and author of works of mystical theology. Antonio Ruiz de Montoya was born in Lima in 1585 and entered the Society of Jesus at 24 he años.Inició the novitiate in San Pablo de Lima School and continued his studies in theology and philosophy in Cordoba, Argentina, for four years. Completed its formative stage, was intended to reductions of Paraguay to work with the Guarani Indians. From the testimonies of his brothers and superiors, Antonio showed great missionary fervor, otherwise would not have been possible to overcome the 25 years he spent in the missions. In all those years he showed great courage, an insatiable curiosity and an enormous vitality. He carried out his work as a true Christian intercultural adventure learned the Guarani language, will empathize with indigenous customs and researched on the natural and geographical environment around him. He founded 13 reductions, which resulted in the construction of schools, churches, centers producciónagrícola and small cities that many said were similar to Paradise, or as they said the same guaraníes were "land without evil".