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Avila, Sancho de

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a Spanish prelate and theologian, was born at Avila in 1546. He was successively bishop of Murcia, of Jaen, of Murviedro, and of Placentia. He died Dec. 6, 1625. He wrote, in Spanish, a treatise on the veneration due to the relics of saints (Madrid, 1611): — Sermons (Baeza, 1615):— a Spanish translation of one of the treatises of St. Augustine (Madrid, 1601, 1626); See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.