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• Ava: A German poetess, the first woman known to have written in ...
• Avancini, Nicola: Chiefly known as an ascetical writer, born in the Tyrol, 1612; ...
• Avarice: Avarice (from Latin avarus , "greedy"; "to crave") is the ...
• Avatar: An Anglicized form of the Sanskrit, avatara , "descent", ...
• Avaugour, Pierre du Bois, Baron d': The Baron d'Avaugour (d. 1664) was sixth Governor General of ...
• Ave Maria: The Hail Mary (sometimes called the "Angelical salutation", ...
• Ave Maris Stella: (Hail, thou Star of Ocean.) The first verse of an unrhymed, ...
• Ave Regina: An antiphon so called from its first line, Ave regina ...
• Avellino: An Italian diocese in the Province of Naples, suffragan to ...
• Avellino, Saint Andrew: Born 1521 at Castronuovo, a small town in Sicily ; died 10 ...
• Avempace: (Ibn Badsha, or Ibn Badja, called by the Scholastics Aven-Pace ...
• Avendano, Fernando: Priest born at Lima, Peru, either towards the end of ...
• Averbode: A Premonstratensian abbey belonging to the circary of Brabant ...
• Averroes: (Abul Walid Mahommed Ibn Achmed, Ibn Mahommed Ibn Roschd). ...
• Aversa, Diocese of: Comprising twenty-one towns in the Province of Caserta and ...
• Avesta, The: The sacred books of Parsees, or Zoroastrians, and the main ...
• Avesta, Theological Aspects of the: I. GOD The name of the Supreme God of the Avestic system is ...
• Avicebron: Salamo Ben Jehuda Ben Gebirol (or Gabirol), whom the ...
• Avicenna: (ABN ALI AL HOSAIN IBN ABDALLAH IBN SINA, called by the Latins ...
• Avignon: Avignon, written in the form of Avennio in the ancient texts ...
• Avignon, Councils of: Nothing is known of the council held here in 1060. In 1080 a ...
• Avignon, University of: The University of Avignon (1303-1792), developed from the ...
• Avila: (ABULA) Diocese ; suffragan of Valladolid in Spain. Its ...
• Avila, Francisco de: Curate or vicar in the province of Huarochiri of Peru, ...
• Avila, Sancho de: Born at Avila of the Kings, in Old Castile, 1546, and named ...
• Avitus, Saint: (Alcimus Ecdicius). A distinguished bishop of Vienne, in ...
• Aviz, Order of: A military body of Portuguese knights. The Kingdom of ...
• Avranches, Council of: In 1172 (September 27-28) a Council was held at Avranches in ...
• Avril, Philippe: Jesuit, born at Angoulême, France, 16 September, 1654; ...

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