ment 1903–; unanimously elected first chairman of the Cork District Council of the Gaelic League, holding the office seven years; definitor of his province 1904–1913; transferred to Dublin to take part in the National Temperance Crusade 1907; guardian, Franciscan Capuchin Friary, Dublin, 1913– . Active in the Irish Industrial Movement; first speaker at the anti-emigration conference, Cork, 1902; distinguished as a pulpit orator; has preached in the principal cities of Ireland in English and Gaelic, in addition to having delivered, in German, a Lenten course of sermons in Vienna (1905) and a shorter one at Prague at the invitation of the Cardinal Prince-Bishop; pronounced the panegyric of St. Finbarr at the shrine in Gougane Barra, Co. Cork, 1905; preached on "St. Patrick and the Faith of the Irish People" in Westminster Cathedral before Bishop Johnson and Bishop O'Donnell, of Raphoe, and 7000 Irish exiles, March 17, 1906; and in the Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, in the presence of Archbishop Walsh and a great muster of the Gaels of the city, March 17, 1909; preached at Croagh Patrick, National Pilgrimage, 1913. Member of the Committee, Dublin College of Modern Irish. Author of an Introduction in English to J. J. O'Kelly's Irish Life of Father Mathew; contributor to several Irish periodicals.
ARTICLES: Mathew, Theobald; Nugent, Francis.
Austin, Sister Mary Stanislas (Laura Cornelia Marie Stanislas Brooks O'Reilly), Sister of Mercy, b. at Albany, New York, 1846, great grandniece of Count Andreas O'Reilly of the Austrian Army and descendant of the Arundels of Wardour; d. at Tarrytown, N. Y., September, 1916. Education: private; Peck and Hegeman Seminary, Rochester, New York. Entered the Order of Sisters of Mercy 1870; passed her life in teaching and charitable works; held the posts of superior and novice-mistress in various convents of the Sisters of Mercy; formerly at the Convent of Mercy, Madison Avenue, New York; at the Institute of Mercy, Tarrytown, New York, 1911–1916. Inaugurated a home for ex-convicts, which was given up after two years for want of funds; former editor of the "Sunday Companion". Former member Fort Greene Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Author of: "Life of Philip Freneau"; etc.; contributor to "Sunday Companion"; "America"; "Journal of American History"; "Connecticut Magazine"; "Catholic World"; "Messenger of the Sacred Heart'; "Lamp".
ARTICLES: O'Reilly, Hugh; Mercy, Sisters of; Warde Maby Francis-Xavier.
Aveling, Reverend Francis Arthur Powell, d.d., ph.d., sc.d., writer, b. at St. Catherine's, Ontario, Canada, 1875. Education: Bishop Ridley College, St. Catherine's; Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada; Keble College, Oxford; Canadian College, Rome; Louvain University, Belgium. Received into the Church by Father Luke Rivington 1896; ordained 1899; former curate at Tottenham, London; first rector of the Cathedral Choir School, Westminster, London; former Cathedral chaplain; lecturer in analytical psychology. University College, London, and Chaplain of St. Wilfrid's Convent, Chelsea, London; at present Chaplain of the Forces; Fellow of Louvain University; extern examiner in philosophy. National University of Ireland; lecturer in pedagogical methods, London County Council. Member of: the Aristotelian Society; the British Psychological Society. Author of: "The Philosophers of the Smoking Room"; "The God of Philosophy"; "Arnoul the Englishman"; "The Immortality of the Soul"; "On the Consciousness of the Universal and the Individual"; "The Spectrum of Truth" (in collaboration with Reverend A. B. Sharpe); editor of: "Westminster Lectures"; "Expository Lessons in Christian Philosophy"; contributor to: "Dublin Review"; "American Catholic Quarterly Review"; "Catholic World"; "Revue Néo-Scolastique"; "Nineteenth Century"; "Journal of Psychology"; "Annales de I'Institut de Louvain".
ARTICLES: Abingdon, Abbey of; Ampleforth, Abbey of; Anglebea, Priory of; Antinomianism; Arches, Court of; Arundel, Thomas; Atheism; Athelney, Abbey of; Baconian System of Philosophy; Baldwin of Canterbury; Beaufort, Lady Margaret; Belief; Boniface of Savoy; Bristow, Richard; Cause; Condition; Deism; Essence and Existence; Form; Free-Thinkers; Man; Matter; Mivart, St. George Jackson; Phenomenalism; Quality; Quantity; Rationalism; Ward, William George.
Aymé, Edward Lucien, m.d., b. in New York, 10 July, 1862, son of Dr. Henry Aymé, of La Rochelle, France, and Elizabeth Geraldine Fitzgerald, of Dublin, Ireland, grandson of Baron Aymé and Charlotte Guyot, and brother of Louis Henry Aymé, American Consul General at Lisbon. Education: public schools, New York; St. Laurent College, Montreal, Canada; Columbia University, New York. Interne at Manhattan Hospital, New York, 1885; practising physician, New York, 1885–; former assistant to Dr. William T. Bull; assistant to Dr. Stokes at Chambers Street Hospital 1884; surgeon of Holland American Steamship Line 1887; assistant at the Roosevelt Hospital and at the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled 1889; examiner in lunacy, Supreme Court, New York, 1890–; assistant, Post Graduate School and Hospital, 1906; instructor in gynecology, Post Graduate Hospital, 1910–; obstetrician, Misericordia Hospital, 1909–; attending physician and surgeon, Home for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor; First Lieutenant, Medical Reserve Corps, United States Army; surgeon of the "W. A. Schulten", and wrecked with it in English Channel, 1887. Member of: American Medical Association, New York County Medical Society, New York State Medical Society, Medical Society of Greater New York, Society of American Wars, Sons of Veterans, Medical Jurisprudence Society, Clinical Society of Post Graduate Hospital, Society of Medical Reserve Corps, Holy Name Society, Third Order of St. Dominic, and Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Author of: "Life of St. Catherine of Siena" (New York); contributor to various periodicals.
ARTICLES: Rose of Lima, Saint; Toribio Alfonso Mogrovejo, Saint.
Azevedo e Castro, Right Reverend João Paulino d', s.t.d., Bishop of Macao, China, b. at Lages, Island of Pico, Azores, 4 February, 1852. Education: public schools, Lages; National Lyceum, Horta, Azores; seminary and university, Coimbra, Portugal. Ordained 1879; professor alternately of philosophy, theology, Church history, and canon law (1879–1902) and rector (1888–1902), Seminary, Angra, Azores; Pro-Synodal Examiner (1879–1902) and at various times also Promotor Fiscalis, Chief Treasurer of the Cathedral, member of the Episcopal Governing Board, and Episcopal Deputy to Portugal, diocese of Angra; Canon of the Cathedral of Angra 1888; archdeacon 1902; Bishop of Macao, China, 1902–; one of the chancellors of the Privy Council of His Most Faithful Majesty of Portugal 1902–1910; president of the Council of Studies at the Seminary, member of Superior Council of Public Education, of the Government Council, and President of the Chief Executive Council, Macao. One of the founders of the paper "A Ordem", Coimbra; one of the founders and 1st Secretary, Congregation of Mary, Coimbra; former editor of "Boletin do governo ecclesiastico dos Açores"; member of the Commission for the Promotion of Conferences of the Clergy, Angra, 1892, 1894; first president of the Association for the Promotion of Spiritual Exercises and Prayer, Angra; as rector of the Seminary, Angra, enlarged the building, introduced the study of scholastic philosophy, established new library and founded Natural History