AVE MARIA WO ma.rila), Hail Mary I. The words of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, when announcing the incarnation (Luke i: tR ), as rendered by the Vulgate.
2. The familiar prayer, or form of devotion, in the Roman Catholic Church, called also the "An gelical Salutation." It consists of three parts: (t) The Salutation of Gabriel, Are (Maria) grotio plena, Dominus tecum: benedicta In in mulieribus; (2) the words of Elizabeth to Mary, ci benedietus fructus rentrts tot; (3) an addition made by the Church, Sancta Maria, Mater Del, ora pro nobis pereataribus 1110u of in horn mortis nestr,r. The whole Ave Maria, as it now stands, is ordered in the breviary of Pius V (1568) to be used daily before each canonical hour and after compline; i e., the last of the seven canoni cal hours (Cott. Diet.; Barnes, Bib. DO.; Doc trine of the Root. Cath. Ch.).
AVEN (5'ren). (1-1c1). tzwren; Sept.'1)v,ohn, nothingness), a plain, 'the plain of the sun,' of Damascene Syria (Amos i:5).
1. It is usually supposed to be the same as the plain of Baalbec, or valley of Baal, where there was a magnificent temple dedicated to the sun. Being between Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon, it is supposed by Rosenmuller and others to be the same plain or valley that is mentioned as 'the valley of Lebanon' m Josh. xi :17. Sonic, how ever, influenced by the Septuagint, would rather seek Aven in the plain of (in, four leagues from Damascus towards the desert.
2. In Hos. (x :8) "the high places of Aven," should be probably Beth-aven. Compare Hos. iv: 15. The plain of Aven or 'the valley of Aven' is probably the Plain of Ccele-Syria, so called from the idolatrous worship of the Sun in the great temple of Baalbek.
3. On or Heliopolis of Egypt (Ezek. xxx :17).