AGOSTINO di ROMA: V. FAVARONI AGOSTINO. AGOSTINO di SANTA MARIA. - French Carmelite tertiary, missionary, in the world G. P. Bouteloup, b. in Paris on 31 May 1820, d. at Magnumey on 21 May 1882. Ordained priest in 1843, he entered the Society of Foreign Missions in 1847, and was a missionary in Mysore (eastern India) until 1871, the year in which he was attached to the missions of Verapoly as a Carmelite tertiary; for many years he taught Sanskrit, Tamil, and English in the seminaries of the indigenous Carmelite Tertiaries. He died as rector of the seminary of those Tertiaries, after having published many works of every kind in the Malayalam language, or translations into that language, for the use of natives and students.
BIBL.: Ambrosius a S. Teresia, Bibl. Mission. Ordinis Carmelitarum Discalceatorum, Rome 1941, nos. 975-83, 1072-81; id., Nomenclator Missionariorum Ordinis Carmelitarum Discalceatorum (1582-1942), in Analecta Ordinis Carmelitarum Discalceatorum, 17 (Rome 1942), pp. 53-54. Ambrogio di Santa Teresa