Author · Nicaragua
Azarías H. Pallais
Died in 1954
Azarías H. Pallais was born in León on 3 November 1884, the son of a doctor of French descent and a niece of the statesman Máximo Jerez. A seminarian, he was driven from the country in 1905 by the conflict between the Zelaya government and the Church: he made his way to Paris, was ordained a priest there in 1908, took a licentiate in canon law, then studied at Leuven. Back in León in 1911, he delivered there in 1916 one of the speeches at Rubén Darío's funeral. Parish priest of Corinto from 1940, he lived there in poverty and died in 1954.
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- PoetryBello tono menorAzarías H. Pallais · 1928not translated into EnglishLiterature