Fernando Avendaño or Fernando de Avendaño ( 1600 – 1665), born and died in

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, was a

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priest. He died shortly after being appointed

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. 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 Pablo José Arriaga, SJ (Arriga; Bergara, Vergara, Biscay, 1564 – died at sea, 1622) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary in colonial Peru. Life He entered the Society of Jesus in 1579, and in 1585 went to Peru, where he was ordained. In 1588 he ...

. Avendaño's ''Sermones de los misterios de nuestra santa Fe católica'' were delivered in

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, and published alongside a Spanish translation in 1649 by the order of the Archbishop of Lima, Petro Villagomez.

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