Avril, Philippe
Jesuit, born at Angouleme, France, 16 September, 1654; died in a shipwreck in 1698.
Ayllón, Lucas Vésquez de
This Spanish discoverer of Chesapeake Bay, and the first who tried to find a northwest passage from Europe to Asia, date of birth uncertain; died 18 October, 1526.
Aylward, James Ambrose Dominic
Theologian and poet, born at Leeds, 4 April, 1813; died at Hinckley (England), 5 October, 1872.
Aymeric of Piacenza
A learned Dominican, b. at Piacenza, Italy; d. at Bologna, 19 August, 1327.
Azara, Féliz de
Spanish naturalist, b. at Barbunales in Aragon, 18 May, 1746; d. 1811.
Azaria, Aristaces
A Catholic Armenian abbot and archbishop, b. at Constantinople, 18 July, 1782; d. at Vienna, 6 May, 1854.
Azarias, Brother
Educator, essayist, litterateur, and philosopher, b. near Killenaule, County Tipperary, Ireland, 29 June, 1847.
Azevedo, Luiz de
An Ethiopic missionary and scholar, born, probably at Carrezedo Montenegro, in the Diocese of Braga, in Portugal, in 1573; died in Ethiopia in 1634.
Azor, Juan
Professor of philosophy and later of theology, both dogmatic and moral, at Piacenza, Alcalá, and Rome. (1559-1603)
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