Miguel Febres Cordero Munoz was an Ecuadorian Roman Catholic religious brother. He was born in Ecuador on 7 November 1854 to Francisco María Febres-Cordero y Montoya and Ana de Jesús Muñoz y Cárdenas.

In 1863 he was enrolled into a school run by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, newly arrived in the nation. He was selected to give the welcome address when President Gabriel García Moreno visited the school.

Muñoz became the first Ecuadorian member of the Brothers of the Christian Schools on 24 March 1868. He assumed the religious habit on the eve of the Feast of the Annunciation with the name of "Miguel", despite the opposition of his father and grandmother.

Miguel became a professed member of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, known as the La Salle Brothers. He assumed the name Miguel upon his admittance into the order.

Due to his high standing in educational affairs, he was elected to educational academies in Ecuador in 1892, and in France and Venezuela. He conducted religious retreats and helped to prepare children for their First Communion.

In 1888 he was sent as the representative to the celebration in which Pope Leo XIII beatified the order's founder, John Baptist de la Salle. Muñoz was sent to Europe in 1905 to translate texts from French to Spanish for the order to use, and he worked to that extent in Belgium. His health started to deteriorate in 1908, and he was transferred to Barcelona in Spain, where he continued to work as long as his health allowed him to.

Miguel died in 1910 of pneumonia and was buried in Premià de Mar, Spain. He was exhumed during the Spanish Civil War and was found to be incorrupt. In 1937 his remains were transferred to Quito where his tomb became a popular pilgrimage site.

Pope Paul VI beatified him on 30 October 1977 and Pope John Paul II and canonized him almost a decade later on 21 October 1984 as the first male Ecuadorian saint.

Other Saints of the Day
1. Saint Apollonia
2. Saint Alexander
3. Saint Eingan
4. Saint Nebridius
5. Saint Teilo

-catholic.org