biography
| name: |
Juan de Ávila, Beato
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pronunciation:
[khwan thay a
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| male
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| lived:
| (1500–69)
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| biography:
| Religious writer, born in Almodóvar del Campo, SC Spain. After studying at Salamanca and Alcalá, he spent most of his life preaching in Andalucia. Audi, filia, et vide (1530) published without his consent in 1556, is a sermon, with asides on the 44th Psalm, written for Doña Sancha Carrillo. It is an ascetic's denunciation of this world and its vanities, and his abasement before the vision of God. About 150 letters to correspondents in all walks of life were posthumously gathered together in Epistolario espiritual para todos estados (1578). He was beatified in 1894. |
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