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Avellaneda Y Arteaga

GER- TRUDIS GOMEZ DE, a distinguished Spanish poet, dramatist and novelist, born in Puerto Principe, Cuba, March 23, 1814; under the pseudonym PER- EGRINA contributed to Andalusian journals many "Lyric Poems" (1851-1854), and afterward wrote a series of spirited novels: "Two Women," "The Baroness de Joux," and others. She gained still higher distinction with the tragedies "Alfonso Munio," the hero of which was AVERNUS her own ancestor, and "The Prince of Viana." Her latest compositions in clude the Biblical dramas "Saul" and "Balthasar." In the later years of her life she composed 16 plays which still have a place on the Spanish stage. She died in Madrid, Feb. 2, 1873.

AVE MARIA ("Hail, Mary"), the first two words of the angel Gabriel's salutation (Luke i: 28), and the beginning of the very common Latin prayer to the Virgin in the Roman Catholic Church. Its lay use was sanctioned at the end of the 12th century, and a papal edict of 1326 ordains the repetition of the prayer thrice each morning, noon, and evening, the hour being indicated by sound of bells called the Ave Marią or Angelus Domini. The prayers are counted upon the small beads of the rosary, as the pater nosters are upon the large ones.