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• Vaast, Abbey of Saint

  Situated at Arras, the ancient capital of Artois, Department of Pas-de-Calais, France; founded in 667

• Vacancy

  A term applied to an office or position devoid of an incumbent, as a vacant benefice, bishopric, or parish

• Vácz, Diocese of

  Located in Hungary; suffragan of Gran; probably founded by King St. Stephen

• Vadstena, Abbey of

  Founded in Sweden by St. Bridget in 1346

• Vaga

  A titular see of Numidia, frequently mentioned by historians and ancient geographers

• Vaillant de Gueslis, François

  Jesuit missionary (1646-1718)

• Vaison, Ancient Diocese of

  Suppressed by the Concordat of 1801, its territory is now included in the Dioceses of Avignon

• Valdés, Alfonso de

  Spanish Humanist and chancellor of Emperor Charles V (1500-1532)

• Valence, Diocese of

  Comprises the Department of Drome

• Valence, University of

  Erected 26 July, 1452, by letters patent from the Dauphin Louis, afterwards Louis XI

• Valencia

  Located in Spain; comprises the civil Provinces of Valencia, Alicante, and Castellon

• Valencia, University of

  At the request of Jaime I the Conqueror, Innocent IV in 1246, authorized by a Bull the establishment of estudios generales in Valencia

• Valens, Flavius

  Emperor of the East (328-378)

• Valentine, Pope

  Reigned briefly in A.D. 827

• Valentine, Saint

  At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February

• Valentinian I

  Emperor of the West (321-375)

• Valentinian II

  Emperor of the West (371-392)

• Valentinian III

  Reigned 425-55, son of Constantius III and Galla Placidia, daughter of Theodosius, succeeded Emperor Honorius.(419-455)

• Valentinus and Valentinians

  The best known and most influential of the Gnostic heretics, born on the coast of Egypt

• Valerian

  Biography of the Roman ruler, focusing on his treatment of Christians

• Valladolid, Archdiocese of

  Bounded on the north by Palencia, east by Burgos and Segovia, south by Avila and Salamanca, and west by Zamora

• Valladolid, University of

  Alfonso XI was the patron of Valladolid

• Valla, Lorenzo

  Article by U. Benigni on the teachings of this Italian humanist

• Vallarsi, Dominic

  Italian priest (1702-1771)

• Vallée-Poussin, Charles-Louis-Joseph-Xavier de la

  Professor of geology and mineralogy at the Catholic University of Louvain (1827-1903)

• Valle, Pietro della

  Italian traveller in the Orient (1586-1652)

• Valleyfield, Diocese of

  Situated at the outlet of Lake St. Francis, on the south shore of the St. Lawrence

• Vallgornera, Thomas de

  Dominican theologian and ascetical writer (1595-1665)

• Valliscaulian Order

  Founded towards the end of the twelfth century by Viard, a lay brother of the Carthusian priory of Loubigny, in the Diocese of Langres

• Vallumbrosan Order

  Founded by St. John Gualbert, son of the noble Florentine Gualbert Visdomini

• Valois, Henri

  Philologist (1603-1676)

• Valona

  Titular see, suffragan of Dyrrachium, in Epirus Nova

• Valroger, Hyacinthe de

  French oratorian, first studied medicine, and was later ordained priest (1814-1876)

• Valva and Sulmona, Dioceses of

  Located in Italy, Valva, a medieval castle belonging to the Bishop of Sulmona, Baron of Valva, is situated near the ancient Corfinium, chief town of the Peligni, a Samnite tribe

• Valverde, Vincent de

  First Bishop of Cuzco (d. 1541)

• Van Beneden, Pierre-Joseph

  Professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in the Catholic University at Louvain (1809-1831)

• Van Buren, William Home

  American surgeon (1819-1883)

• Vancouver

  Archdiocese; includes that part of the mainland of the Province of British Columbia south of 54° N. lat. and west of the Straits of Georgia, together with the Queen Charlotte Islands

• Vandal, Albert

  French writer (1853-1910)

• Vandals

  A Germanic people belonging to the family of East Germans

• Van den Broek, Theodore J.

  Priest and missionary (1783-1851)

• Van der Sandt, Maximilian

  Wrote works on philosophy and theology, including a notable controversial reply to the Batavian Calvinist Lawrence in defence of the moral teaching of the Jesuits (1578-1656)

• Van der Weyden, Rogier

  Painter (1399-1464)

• Van de Velde, Peter

  Spanish painter (1503-1580)

• Van De Vyver, Augustine

  Sixth Bishop of Richmond, Virginia (1844-1911)

• Vane, Thomas

  Seventeenth-century convert from Anglicanism

• Vannes, Diocese of

  Comprises the Department of Morbihan, and was re-established by the Concordat of 1802

• Vanni, Andrea

  Painter and statesman (1320-1414)

• Vanni, Francesco

  Siennese painter (1565-1609)

• Vargas, Luis de

  Seville painter (1502-1568)

• Vargas y Mexia, Francisco de

  Spanish diplomat and ecclesiastical writer, died 1566

• Vasari, Giorgio

  Painter, architect, and writer (1511-1574)

• Vasquez, Gabriel

  Theologian (1549-1604)

• Vatable, François

  Abbot of Bellozane, died 1547

• Vatican as a Scientific Institution, The

  Details of scientific activity in the Vatican

• Vatican Council

  The twentieth and up to 1912, the last ecumenical council, opened on 8 December, 1869, and adjourned on 20 October, 1870

• Vatican, The

  Detailed history and information

• Vaudreuil

  Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil. Governor of Canada, died 1725

• Vaughan, Herbert

  Cardinal, and third Archbishop of Westminster (1832-1903)

• Vaughan, Roger William

  Second Archbishop of Sydney (1834-1883)

• Vauquelin, Louis-Nicolas

  French chemist (1763-1829)

• Vaux-de-Cernay

  Cistercian abbey situated in the Diocese of Versailles, Seine-et-Oise, in what was called the 'Isle-de-France'

• Vaux, Laurence

  Martyr in prison (1519-1585)

• Vavasour, Thomas

  English physician (1536-1585)

• Vavasseur, François

  Humanist and controversialist (1605-1681)

• Vaz, Blessed Joseph

  Biographical article on this 17th-century priest from Goa who was a missionary to Sri Lanka

• Vecchietta, Lorenzo di Pietro

  Artist (1412-1480)

• Vedas

  Sacred books of ancient India

• Vega, Andreas de

  Spanish theologian (d. 1560)

• Veghe, Johannes

  German preacher and religious writer, died 1504

• Vegio, Maffeo

  Humanist, poet, and educator (1406-1458)

• Veglia, Diocese of

  In Austria, suffragan of Goerz-Gradisca

• Vehe, Michael

  German Dominican (d. 1559)

• Veil, Religious

  The bride of Christ, as the vestal virgins had done, adopted the veil, which thus symbolized not so much the purity as the inviolable fidelity to Christ which was to be reverenced in her

• Veith, Johann Emanuel

  Preacher (1787-1876)

• Veit, Philipp

  Painter (1793-1877)

• Velazquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y

  Artist's biography by Louis Gillet

• Venezuela

  A republic formed out of the provinces which, under Spanish rule, constituted the captaincy general of the same name

• Venice

  The capital of a province in Northern Italy, is formed of a group of 117 small islands joined together by 378 bridges mostly built of stone

• Veni Creator Spiritus

  The most famous of hymns, assigned in the Roman Breviary to Vespers (I and II) and Terce of Pentecost and throughout the octave

• Veni Sancte Spiritus Et Emitte Coelitus

  Sung at Mass from Whitsunday until the following Saturday inclusively, and comprises ten stanzas

• Veni Sancte Spiritus Reple

  A prose invocation of the Holy Ghost

• Venosa

  Diocese in Southern Italy

• Ventimiglia

  Italian diocese

• Ventura di Raulica, Gioacchino

  Italian orator, patriot, philosopher (1792-1861)

• Venturino of Bergamo

  Preacher (1304-1346)

• Venusti, Raffaele

  Italian controversialist (d. 1543)

• Vera Cruz

  Diocese of the Mexican Republic, suffragan of the Archbishopric of Mexico

• Verapoly, Archdiocese of

  Located on the Malabar Coast, India, having the Diocese of Quilon as suffragan

• Verbiest, Ferdinand

  Jesuit missionary and astronomer (1623-1688)

• Verbum Supernum Prodiens

  The first line of two hymns celebrating respectively the Nativity of Christ and the Institution of the Holy Eucharist

• Vercelli

  Archdiocese in the Province of Novara, Piedmont, Italy

• Vercellone, Carlo

  Biblical scholar, born at Biella, Milan; died at Rome, 19 January, 1869

• Verdaguer, Jacinto

  Spanish poet (1845-1902)

• Verdi, Giuseppe

  Italian composer (1813-1901)

• Verdun, Diocese of

  Comprises the Department of the Meuse

• Verecundus

  Bishop of Junca, in the African Province of Byzacena, in the middle of the sixth century

• Vergani, Paolo

  Italian political economist (1753-1820)

• Vergerio, Pier Paolo, the Elder

  Humanist, statesman, and canonist (b. 1370)

• Vergilius of Salzburg, Saint

  Irish-born Abbot of St. Peter's monastery at Salzburg. He held that the earth was round, for which St. Boniface accused him of heresy. Vergilius freed himself of the charge, and went on to become a missionary, dying in 789

• Vergil, Polydore

  Commissioned by Henry VII to write the history of England

• Vering, Friedrich Heinrich

  German canonist (1833-1896)

• Vermont

  One of the New England states

• Vernazza, Tommasina

  Entered the monastery of St. Maria delle Grazie, and became a canoness regular, taking the name of Battistina (1497-1587)

• Verne, Jules

  Novelist (1828-1905)

• Vernier, Pierre

  Inventor of the instrument which bears his name (1580-1637)

• Veroli, Diocese of

  Located in the Province of Rome

• Verona

  Diocese in Venetia (Northern Italy)

• Véron, François

  French controversialist, born at Paris about 1575; died at Charenton, 1625

• Veronica, Saint

  Veronica is a name popularly given to one of the women who accompanied Christ to Calvary. 'Veronica' is an abbreviation of 'vera icon' (true image), and the woman now called Veronica is said to have offered a towel to Christ, on which he left the imprint of his face

• Verot, Augustin

  Third Bishop of Savannah, first of St. Augustine (1804-1876)

• Verrazano, Giovanni da

  Navigator, died 1527

• Verreau, Hospice-Anthelme

  French-Canadian priest, educator, and historian (1828-1901)

• Verri, Count Pietro

  Economist.(1728-1797)

• Verrocchio, Andrea del

  Artist (1435-1488)

• Versailles

  Diocese includes the Department of Seine-et-Oise, France

• Verstegan, Richard

  Publisher and antiquarian, born at London, about 1548

• Vertin, John

  Third Bishop of Marquette, U.S.A (1844-1899)

• Vertot, Réné-Aubert, Sieur de

  French historian (1655-1735)

• Veruela

  A Cistercian monastery and church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin. It is situated five miles northwest of Borja, Saragossa, Spain

• Vesalius, Andreas

  The reorganizer of the study of anatomy

• Vespasian

  Biography of the Roman Emperor

• Vespasiano da Bisticci

  Florentine humanist and librarian (1421-1498)

• Vespers

  Historical article on Evening Prayer, one of the two principal canonical hours

• Vespers, Music of

  Applies especially to the cathedral Office, i.e., the Liturgy of the Hours in a parish setting

• Vestments

  According to the rules of the Church or from ecclesiastical usage, are to be worn by the clergy in performing the ceremonies of the services of the Church

• Veszprém

  Diocese in Hungary, suffragan of Gran, one of the sees founded about 1009 by King St. Stephen, or perhaps by Queen Gisela, his wife

• Veto, The Royal

  Lord Grenville presented a petition for the Catholics in the Lords, and, in moving for a committee, proposed an effective veto for the king on the appointment of bishops

• Vetter, Conrad

  Preacher and polemical writer (1547-1622)

• Veuillot, Louis

  Journalist and writer (1813-1883)

• Vexilla Regis Prodeunt

  Written by Venantius Fortunatus

• Vexiö, Ancient See of

  In Sweden, comprised the County of Kronoberg and the hundreds of Ostra, Westra, Ostbo, and Westbo in the County of Joenkoeping

• Vezzosi, Antonio Francesco

  Member of the Theatine Congregation and biographical writer (1708-1783)

• Viader, José

  Assistant at the Indian mission of Santa Clara

• Viaticum

  Among the ancient Greeks the custom prevailed of giving a supper to those setting out on a journey

• Viator, Clerics of Saint

  Lector of the cathedral at Lyons, France, in the fourth century

• Viborg, Ancient See of

  Located in Denmark

• Vicar

  In canon law, the representative of a person clothed with ordinary ecclesiastical jurisdiction

• Vicar Apostolic

  In the early ages of the Church, the popes committed to some residentiary bishops the duty of watching over ecclesiastical matters in a certain region

• Vicar Capitular

  The administrator of a vacant diocese, elected by a cathedral chapter

• Vicar-General

  The highest official of a diocese after the ordinary

• Vicariate Apostolic (Updated List)

  Recenty erected vicariates Apostolic as of 1913

• Vicari, Hermann von

  Archbishop of Freiburg in Baden (1773-1868)

• Vicar of Christ

  A title of the pope implying his supreme and universal primacy, both of honour and of jurisdiction, over the Church of Christ

• Vice

  Regarded as a habit inclining one to sin

• Vicelinus, Saint

  Biographical article on the Bishop of Oldenburg, who died in 1154

• Vicente, Gil

  Portuguese dramatist (1470-1536)

• Vicenza, Diocese of

  The city is the capital of a province in Venetia (Northern Italy)

• Vich, Diocese of

  Suffragan of Tarragona

• Vico, Francescoe de

  Astronomer (1805-1848)

• Victimae Paschali Laudes Immolent Christiani

  First stanza of the Easter sequence

• Victor

  Bishop of Tunnunum in Northern Africa (d. 569)

• Victoria

  Diocese in southwestern British Columbia

• Victoria Nyanza, Northern

  Founded in 1878 by the White Fathers of Cardinal Lavigerie

• Victoria Nyanza, Southern

  Vicariate apostolic erected from the mission of Nyanza

• Victor II, Pope

  Reigned 1055-57

• Victorinus, Caius Marius

  A fourth-century grammarian, rhetorician, philosopher, and theologian

• Victorinus, Saint

  Biographical profile of the bishop of Pettau, an ecclesiastical writer, martyred in the Diocletian persecution

• Victor I, Pope Saint

  Article on the late second-century pope, involved in the Quartodeciman controversy

• Victor IV

  Cardinal Gregory Conti, elected in opposition to Innocent II

• Victor of Capua

  A sixteenth-century bishop

• Victor Vitensis

  An African bishop of the Province of Byzacena

• Vida, Marco Girolamo

  Italian Humanist

• Vieira, Antonio

  Missionary, diplomat, orator (1608-1697)

• Viel, Nicholas

  Died 1625, the first victim of apostolic zeal on the shores of the St. Lawrence

• Vienna

  The capital of Austria-Hungary, the residence of the emperor, and the seat of a Latin archbishopric

• Vienna, University of

  The oldest university of the former Holy Roman Empire, next to the University of Prague

• Vienne, Council of

  Convened 1311-1312, dealing mainly with the Knights Templar

• Vierthaler, Franz Michael

  Austrian pedagogue (1758-1827)

• Vieta, François

  Father of modern algebra

• Viger, Denis-Benjamin

  French-Canadian statesman and writer (1774-1861)

• Viger, Jacques

  French-Canadian antiquarian and archaeologist (1787-1858)

• Vigevano

  Diocese in Lombardy, Province of Pavia

• Vigilius

  Bishop of Tapsus, in the African Province of Byzacena

• Vigilius, Pope

  Reigned 537-55

• Vigilius, Saint

  Biographical essay on the Bishop of Trent, martyred 26 June, 405

• Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi da

  A theoretical and practical architect of the Transition Period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles (1507-1573)

• Vigor, Simon

  French bishop and controversialist (1515-1575)

• Villalpandus, Juan Bautista

  His fame rests mainly on a 'Commentary on Ezechiel'

• Villani, Giovanni

  Florentine historian, b. about 1276; d. of the plague in 1348

• Villanovanus, Arnaldus

  Physician and alchemist (1235-1312)

• Villefranche, Jacques-Melchior

  Publicist (1829-1904)

• Villehardouin, Geoffroi de

  Marechal de Champagne, warrior, and first historian in the French language

• Villeneuve-Barcement, Jean-Paul-Alban

  Vicomte de, b. at Saint-Auban, Var, 8 Aug., 1784; d. at Paris, 8 June, 1850

• Villermé, Louis-René

  French economist (1782-1863)

• Villers, Cistercian Abbey of

  Situated on the confines of Villers and Tilly, Duchy of Brabant, present Diocese of Namur (Belgium), and first monastery of the order in this territory

• Vilna

  The capital of Lithuania, situated at the junction of the Rivers Vileika and Vilja

• Vincent de Paul, Saint

  Biography of the French priest, founder of the Congregation of the Mission, who died in 1660

• Vincent of Beauvais

  Priest and encyclopedist (1190-1264)

• Vincent of Lérins, Saint

  Essay on the fifth-century monk and ecclesiastical writer

• Vincent, Saint

  Also called Maldegarius, married to St. Waldetrude. Their four children are also among the saints. SS. Vincent and Waldetrude both entered monastic life, he founding the monasteries of Hautmont and Soignies. He died in 677

• Vincent, Saint

  Essay on the deacon, a native of Saragossa, martyred in 304

• Vincenzo de Vit

  Latinist (1810-1892)

• Vindicianus, Saint

  Biography of the bishop of Cambrai-Arras, born about 620

• Vineam Domini

  An Apostolic Constitution issued by Clement XI against the Jansenists on 16 July, 1705

• Violence

  The stimulus or moving cause must come from without; no one can do violence to himself

• Viotti, Giovanni Battista

  Founder of the modern school of violinist

• Virgilius, Saint

  Essay on the monk, archbishop of Arles

• Virginia

  One of the thirteen original states

• Virginity

  Morally, virginity signifies the reverence for bodily integrity which is suggested by a virtuous motive

• Virtue

  According to its etymology the word virtue (Latin virtus) signifies manliness or courage

• Vischer, Peter

  Sculptor and metal founder (1460-1529)

• Visdelou, Claude de

  One of the missionaries sent to China by Louis XIV in 1687

• Visigoths

  One of the two principal branches of the Goths

• Visitation, Canonical

  The act of an ecclesiastical superior who in the discharge of his office visits persons or places with a view of maintaining faith and discipline, and of correcting abuses by the application of proper remedies

• Visitation Convent, Georgetown

  Located in the District of Columbia, United States of America

• Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

  Article on the event and the feast

• Visitation Order

  The nuns of the Visitation of Mary, called also Filles de Sainte-Marie, Visitandines, and Salesian Sisters, were founded in 1610

• Visitors Apostolic

  Officials whom canonists commonly class with papal legates

• Vitalian, Pope Saint

  He tried to win over the Monothelites who then held sway in Constantinople, and was the reigning pope at the time of the Synod of Whitby. He died in 672

• Vitalini, Bonifazio

  Jurist, died 1388

• Vitalis and Agricola, Saints

  Vitalis was a slave, converted to Christianity by his master Agricola. Both were martyred at Bologna about 304

• Vitalis of Savigny, Saint

  Founder of the monastery and Congregation of Savigny. Died 1122

• Vitalis, Saint

  Martyr in about 171. Husband of St. Valeria (also a martyr), and father of SS. Gervasius and Protasius

• Vitelleschi, Muzio

  Born at Rome 2 Dec., 1563; died there 9 Feb., 1645

• Vitellius, Lucius

  Proclaimed Roman Emperor by the soldiers at Cologne during the civil war of A.D. 69; d. at Rome, 21 Dec., 69

• Vitoria

  Diocese; suffragan of Burgos, in Spain

• Vittorino da Feltre

  Humanist educator (1397-1446)

• Viva, Domenico

  Writer (1648-1726)

• Vivarini

  A family of Italian painters. Alvise, Antonio, and Bartolommeo (Bartolommeo da Murano)

• Vives, Juan Luis

  Article on his life and works, by Paul Lejay

• Viviers

  Diocese; includes the Department of Ardeche, France

• Vivisection

  Defined literally the word vivisection signifies the dissection of living creatures

• Vizagapatam, Diocese of

  Located in the east of India, suffragan to Madras

• Vizeu

  Diocese in north central Portugal

• Vladimir the Great, Saint

  Biography of the grandson of St. Olga. Grand Duke of Kiev and All Russia, first ruler of Russia to convert to Christianity, d. 1015

• Vocation, Ecclesiastical and Religious

  The special gift of those who, in the Church of God, follow with a pure intention the ecclesiastical profession of the evangelical counsels

• Vogler, George Joseph

  Theorist, composer, organist (1749-1814)

• Vogüé, Eugène-Melchior, Vicomte de

  Critic, novelist, and historian (1848-1910)

• Volksverein

  Organization of German Catholics opposing heresies and revolutionary tendencies in the social world, and for the defence of Christian order in society

• Volk, Wilhelm

  Pseudonym, Ludwig Clarus

• Volta, Alessandro

  Physicist (1745-1827)

• Volterra

  Diocese in Tuscany

• Volterra, Daniele da

  Italian painter (1509-1566)

• Voluntarism

  In the modern metaphysical sense is a theory which explains the universe as emanating ultimately from some form of will

• Voluntary

  Wilful, proceeding from the will

• Völuspá

  A wise woman

• Vondel, Joost van Den

  Netherland poet and convert (1587-1679)

• Von Gagern, Max, Freiherr

  Born at Weilburg (in Nassau), Germany, 25 March, 1810; died at Vienna, 17 October, 1889

• Votive Mass

  A Mass offered for a votum, a special intention

• Votive Offerings

  The general name given to those things vowed or dedicated to God, or a saint, and in consequence looked upon as set apart by this act of consecration

• Votive Offices

  One not entered in the general calendar, but adopted with a view to satisfying a special devotion

• Vows

  A promise made to God

• Vrau, Philibert

  'The holy man of Lille', organizer of numerous Catholic activities (1829-1905)

• Vrie, Theodoric

  Fourteenth-century historian

• Vulgate, Revision of

  In the spring of 1907 the public press announced that Pius X had determined to begin preparations for a critical revision of the Latin Bible