About Fernando Avendaño
Lived 1577 – 1655 (aged 77–78). Fernando Avendaño was a Peruvian missionary and catholic priest.
Fernando Avendaño or Fernando de Avendaño ( 1600 – 1665), born and died in Lima, Peru, was a Catholic priest.
He died shortly after being appointed Bishop of Santiago, Chile. He was an investigator into survivals of the primitive rites and customs of the Peruvian Indians. Fragments of his notes on the subject are preserved in the work of Pablo José Arriaga.
Avendaño's Sermones de los misterios de nuestra santa Fe católica were delivered in Quechua, and published alongside a Spanish translation in 1649 by the order of the Archbishop of Lima, Petro Villagomez.
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Who was Fernando Avendaño?
Catholic priest
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Fernando Avendaño was born in 1577 in Lima.
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Fernando Avendaño died in 1655 in Lima.
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Fernando Avendaño was a missionary and catholic priest.
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Fernando Avendaño was Peruvian.
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