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• Vaast, Abbey of Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15248a.htm
  Situated at Arras, the ancient capital of Artois, Department of Pas-de-Calais, France; founded in 667.

• Vacancy

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15248b.htm
  A term applied to an office or position devoid of an incumbent, as a vacant benefice, bishopric, or parish.

• Vadstena, Abbey of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15248c.htm
  Founded in Sweden by St. Bridget in 1346.

• Vaga

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15249a.htm
  A titular see of Numidia, frequently mentioned by historians and ancient geographers.

• Vaillant de Gueslis, François

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15249b.htm
  Jesuit missionary. (1646-1718)

• Vaison, Ancient Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16078b.htm
  Suppressed by the Concordat of 1801, its territory is now included in the Dioceses of Avignon.

• Valdés, Alfonso de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15249c.htm
  Spanish Humanist and chancellor of Emperor Charles V. (1500-1532)

• Valence, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15250a.htm
  Comprises the Department of Drome.

• Valence, University of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15251a.htm
  Erected 26 July, 1452, by letters patent from the Dauphin Louis, afterwards Louis XI.

• Valencia

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15251b.htm
  Located in Spain; comprises the civil Provinces of Valencia, Alicante, and Castellón.

• Valencia, University of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15253a.htm
  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

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15253b.htm
  Emperor of the East. (328-378)

• Valentine, Pope

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15254b.htm
  Reigned briefly in A.D. 827.

• Valentine, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15254a.htm
  At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February.

• Valentinian I

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15254c.htm
  Emperor of the West. (321-375)

• Valentinian II

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15255a.htm
  Emperor of the West. (371-392)

• Valentinian III

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15255b.htm
  Reigned 425-55, son of Constantius III and Galla Placidia, daughter of Theodosius, succeeded Emperor Honorius.(419-455)

• Valentinus and Valentinians

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15256a.htm
  The best known and most influential of the Gnostic heretics, born on the coast of Egypt.

• Valerian

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15256b.htm
  Biography of the Roman ruler, focusing on his treatment of Christians.

• Validation of Marriage

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15256c.htm
  May be effected by a simple renewal of consent when its nullity arises only from a defective consent in one or both parties.

• Valla, Lorenzo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15257a.htm
  Article by U. Benigni on the teachings of this Italian humanist.

• Valladolid, Archdiocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15258a.htm
  Bounded on the north by Palencia, east by Burgos and Segovia, south by Avila and Salamanca, and west by Zamora.

• Valladolid, University of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15259a.htm
  Alfonso XI was the patron of Valladolid.

• Vallarsi, Dominic

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15260a.htm
  Italian priest. (1702-1771)

• Valle, Pietro della

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15260b.htm
  Italian traveller in the Orient. (1586-1652)

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

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15260c.htm
  Professor of geology and mineralogy at the Catholic University of Louvain. (1827-1903)

• Valleyfield, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15261a.htm
  Situated at the outlet of Lake St. Francis, on the south shore of the St. Lawrence.

• Vallgornera, Thomas de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15261b.htm
  Dominican theologian and ascetical writer. (1595-1665)

• Valliscaulian Order

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15261c.htm
  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

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15262a.htm
  Founded by St. John Gualbert, son of the noble Florentine Gualbert Visdomini.

• Valois, Henri

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15263a.htm
  Philologist. (1603-1676)

• Valona

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15264a.htm
  Titular see, suffragan of Dyrrachium, in Epirus Nova.

• Valroger, Hyacinthe de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15264b.htm
  French oratorian, first studied medicine, and was later ordained priest. (1814-1876)

• Valva and Sulmona, Dioceses of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15264c.htm
  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

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15265a.htm
  First Bishop of Cuzco. (d. 1541)

• Van Beethoven, Ludwig

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15265b.htm
  Composer. (1770-1827)

• Van Beneden, Pierre-Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15266a.htm
  Professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in the Catholic University at Louvain. (1809-1831)

• Van Buren, William Home

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15267a.htm
  American surgeon. (1819-1883)

• Van de Velde, Peter

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15270a.htm
  Spanish painter. (1503-1580)

• Van De Vyver, Augustine

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15270b.htm
  Sixth Bishop of Richmond, Virginia. (1844-1911)

• Van den Broek, Theodore J.

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15269a.htm
  Priest and missionary. (1783-1851)

• Van der Sandt, Maximilian

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15269b.htm
  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

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15269c.htm
  Painter. (1399-1464)

• Vancouver

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15267b.htm
  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

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15268a.htm
  French writer. (1853-1910)

• Vandals

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15268b.htm
  A Germanic people belonging to the family of East Germans.

• Vane, Thomas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15271a.htm
  Seventeenth-century convert from Anglicanism.

• Vannes, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15271b.htm
  Comprises the Department of Morbihan, and was re-established by the Concordat of 1802.

• Vanni, Andrea

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15272a.htm
  Painter and statesman. (1320-1414)

• Vanni, Francesco

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15272b.htm
  Siennese painter. (1565-1609)

• Vargas y Mexia, Francisco de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15273b.htm
  Spanish diplomat and ecclesiastical writer, died 1566.

• Vargas, Luis de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15273a.htm
  Seville painter. (1502-1568)

• Vasari, Giorgio

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15274a.htm
  Painter, architect, and writer. (1511-1574)

• Vasquez, Gabriel

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15275a.htm
  Theologian. (1549-1604)

• Vatable, François

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15276a.htm
  Abbot of Bellozane, died 1547.

• Vatican as a Scientific Institution, The

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15286a.htm
  Details of scientific activity in the Vatican.

• Vatican Council

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15303a.htm
  The twentieth and up to 1912, the last ecumenical council, opened on 8 December, 1869, and adjourned on 20 October, 1870.

• Vatican Observatory

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15309a.htm
  Gregory XIII ordered a tower to be erected in a convenient part of the Vatican buildings, and to be fitted out with the greatest and best instruments of the time.

• Vatican, The

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15276b.htm
  Detailed history and information.

• Vaudreuil

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15311a.htm
  Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil. Governor of Canada, died 1725.

• Vaughan, Herbert

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15311b.htm
  Cardinal, and third Archbishop of Westminster. (1832-1903)

• Vaughan, Roger William

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15315a.htm
  Second Archbishop of Sydney. (1834-1883)

• Vauquelin, Louis-Nicolas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15315b.htm
  French chemist. (1763-1829)

• Vaux, Laurence

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15315c.htm
  Martyr in prison. (1519-1585)

• Vaux-de-Cernay

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15316a.htm
  Cistercian abbey situated in the Diocese of Versailles, Seine-et-Oise, in what was called the "Isle-de-France".

• Vavasour, Thomas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15316b.htm
  English physician. (1536-1585)

• Vavasseur, François

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15317a.htm
  Humanist and controversialist. (1605-1681)

• Vecchietta, Lorenzo di Pietro

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15317c.htm
  Artist. (1412-1480)

• Vedas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15318a.htm
  Sacred books of ancient India.

• Vega, Andreas de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15319a.htm
  Spanish theologian. (d. 1560)

• Veghe, Johannes

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15320a.htm
  German preacher and religious writer, died 1504.

• Vegio, Maffeo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15320b.htm
  Humanist, poet, and educator. (1406-1458)

• Veglia, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15321a.htm
  In Austria, suffragan of Görz-Gradisca.

• Veil, Religious

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15321c.htm
  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.

• Veit, Philipp

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15322a.htm
  Painter. (1793-1877)

• Veith, Johann Emanuel

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15322b.htm
  Preacher. (1787-1876)

• Velazquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15323a.htm
  Artist's biography by Louis Gillet.

• Venezuela

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15327a.htm
  A republic formed out of the provinces which, under Spanish rule, constituted the captaincy general of the same name.

• Veni Creator Spiritus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15341a.htm
  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

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15342a.htm
  Sung at Mass from Whitsunday until the following Saturday inclusively, and comprises ten stanzas.

• Veni Sancte Spiritus Reple

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15342b.htm
  A prose invocation of the Holy Ghost.

• Venice

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15333a.htm
  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.

• Venosa

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15342c.htm
  Diocese in Southern Italy.

• Ventimiglia

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15343a.htm
  Italian diocese.

• Ventura di Raulica, Gioacchino

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15343b.htm
  Italian orator, patriot, philosopher. (1792-1861)

• Venturino of Bergamo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15344a.htm
  Preacher. (1304-1346)

• Venusti, Raffaele

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15344b.htm
  Italian controversialist. (d. 1543)

• Vera Cruz

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15344c.htm
  Diocese of the Mexican Republic, suffragan of the Archbishopric of Mexico.

• Verapoly, Archdiocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15345a.htm
  Located on the Malabar Coast, India, having the Diocese of Quilon as suffragan.

• Verbiest, Ferdinand

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15346a.htm
  Jesuit missionary and astronomer. (1623-1688)

• Verbum Supernum Prodiens

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15348a.htm
  The first line of two hymns celebrating respectively the Nativity of Christ and the Institution of the Holy Eucharist.

• Vercelli

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15348b.htm
  Archdiocese in the Province of Novara, Piedmont, Italy.

• Vercellone, Carlo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15349a.htm
  Biblical scholar, born at Biella, Milan; died at Rome, 19 January, 1869.

• Verdaguer, Jacinto

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15350a.htm
  Spanish poet. (1845-1902)

• Verdi, Giuseppe

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15350b.htm
  Italian composer. (1813-1901)

• Verdun, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15350c.htm
  Comprises the Department of the Meuse.

• Verecundus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15352a.htm
  Bishop of Junca, in the African Province of Byzacena, in the middle of the sixth century.

• Vergani, Paolo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15353a.htm
  Italian political economist. (1753-1820)

• Vergerio, Pier Paolo, the Elder

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15353b.htm
  Humanist, statesman, and canonist. (b. 1370)

• Vergil, Polydore

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15353c.htm
  Commissioned by Henry VII to write the history of England.

• Vergilius of Salzburg, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15353d.htm
  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.

• Vering, Friedrich Heinrich

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15354a.htm
  German canonist. (1833-1896)

• Vermont

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15354b.htm
  One of the New England states.

• Verna, La

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15358a.htm
  An isolated mountain hallowed by association with St. Francis of Assisi, situated in the centre of the Tuscan Apennines.

• Vernazza, Tommasina

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15358b.htm
  Entered the monastery of St. Maria delle Grazie, and became a canoness regular, taking the name of Battistina. (1497-1587)

• Verne, Jules

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15358c.htm
  Novelist. (1828-1905)

• Vernier, Pierre

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15359a.htm
  Inventor of the instrument which bears his name. (1580-1637)

• Veroli, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15359b.htm
  Located in the Province of Rome.

• Veron, François

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15359c.htm
  French controversialist, born at Paris about 1575; died at Charenton, 1625.

• Verona

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15360a.htm
  Diocese in Venetia (Northern Italy).

• Veronica Giuliani, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15363a.htm
  Short biographical article on this Capuchin, who died in 1727.

• Veronica, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15362a.htm
  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

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15363b.htm
  Third Bishop of Savannah, first of St. Augustine. (1804-1876)

• Verrazano, Giovanni da

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15364a.htm
  Navigator, died 1527.

• Verreau, Hospice-Anthelme

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15364b.htm
  French-Canadian priest, educator, and historian. (1828-1901)

• Verri, Count Pietro

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15364c.htm
  Economist.(1728-1797)

• Verrocchio, Andrea del

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15364d.htm
  Artist. (1435-1488)

• Versailles

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15366a.htm
  Diocese includes the Department of Seine-et-Oise, France.

• Versions of the Bible

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15367a.htm
  Article on versions of the Bible in the original languages and in translation. Grouped by source.

• Versions of the Bible, Coptic

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16078c.htm
  At least parts of Scripture were translated into all four dialects of the Coptic language, though there is some debate about which of the Coptic versions is oldest.

• Verstegan, Richard

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15377a.htm
  Publisher and antiquarian, born at London, about 1548.

• Vertin, John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15377b.htm
  Third Bishop of Marquette, U.S.A. (1844-1899)

• Vertot, Réné-Aubert, Sieur de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15378a.htm
  French historian. (1655-1735)

• Veruela

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15378b.htm
  A Cistercian monastery and church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin. It is situated five miles north-west of Borja, Saragossa, Spain.

• Vesalius, Andreas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15378c.htm
  The reorganizer of the study of anatomy.

• Vespasian

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15379a.htm
  Biography of the Roman Emperor.

• Vespasiano da Bisticci

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15380a.htm
  Florentine humanist and librarian. (1421-1498)

• Vespers

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15381a.htm
  Historical article on Evening Prayer, one of the two principal canonical hours.

• Vespers, Music of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15382a.htm
  Applies especially to the cathedral Office, i.e., the Liturgy of the Hours in a parish setting.

• Vespers, Sicilian

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15384a.htm
  The traditional name given to the insurrection which broke out at Palermo on Easter Tuesday, 31 March, 1282, against the domination of Charles of Anjou.

• Vespucci, Amerigo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15384b.htm
  Biographical article on the Italian navigator (1451-1512).

• Vestibule (in Architecture)

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15387a.htm
  A hall projecting in front of the façade of a church, found from the fifth century both in the East and the West.

• Vestments

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15388a.htm
  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

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15392a.htm
  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

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15392b.htm
  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

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15394a.htm
  Preacher and polemical writer. (1547-1622)

• Veuillot, Louis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15394b.htm
  Journalist and writer. (1813-1883)

• Vexilla Regis Prodeunt

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15396a.htm
  Written by Venantius Fortunatus.

• Vexiö, Ancient See of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16081a.htm
  In Sweden, comprised the County of Kronoberg and the hundreds of Ostra, Westra, Östbo, and Westbo in the County of Jönköping.

• Vezzosi, Antonio Francesco

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15397a.htm
  Member of the Theatine Congregation and biographical writer. (1708-1783)

• Viader, José

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15397b.htm
  Assistant at the Indian mission of Santa Clara.

• Viaticum

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15397c.htm
  Among the ancient Greeks the custom prevailed of giving a supper to those setting out on a journey.

• Viator, Clerics of Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15399a.htm
  Lector of the cathedral at Lyons, France, in the fourth century.

• Viborg, Ancient See of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16081b.htm
  Located in Denmark.

• Vicar

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15401a.htm
  In canon law, the representative of a person clothed with ordinary ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

• Vicar Apostolic

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15401b.htm
  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

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15401c.htm
  The administrator of a vacant diocese, elected by a cathedral chapter.

• Vicar of Christ

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15403b.htm
  A title of the pope implying his supreme and universal primacy, both of honour and of jurisdiction, over the Church of Christ.

• Vicar-General

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15402a.htm
  The highest official of a diocese after the ordinary.

• Vicari, Hermann von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15403a.htm
  Archbishop of Freiburg in Baden. (1773-1868)

• Vicariate Apostolic (Updated List)

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16082a.htm
  Recently erected vicariates Apostolic as of 1913.

• Vice

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15403c.htm
  Regarded as a habit inclining one to sin.

• Vicelinus, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15404a.htm
  Biographical article on the Bishop of Oldenburg, who died in 1154.

• Vicente, Gil

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15404b.htm
  Portuguese dramatist. (1470-1536)

• Vicenza, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15404c.htm
  The city is the capital of a province in Venetia (Northern Italy).

• Vich, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15405a.htm
  Suffragan of Tarragona.

• Vico, Francescoe de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15406a.htm
  Astronomer. (1805-1848)

• Victimae Paschali Laudes Immolent Christiani

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15407a.htm
  First stanza of the Easter sequence.

• Victor

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15412a.htm
  Bishop of Tunnunum in Northern Africa. (d. 569)

• Victor I, Pope Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15408a.htm
  Article on the late second-century pope, involved in the Quartodeciman controversy.

• Victor II, Pope

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15409a.htm
  Reigned 1055-57.

• Victor III, Pope Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15410a.htm
  Benedictine monk, peacemaker, abbot of Monte Cassino, elected to the papacy in 1086, d. 1087.

• Victor IV

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15411a.htm
  Cardinal Gregory Conti, elected in opposition to Innocent II.

• Victor of Capua

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15414c.htm
  A sixteenth-century bishop.

• Victor Vitensis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15415a.htm
  An African bishop of the Province of Byzacena.

• Victoria

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15412b.htm
  Diocese in southwestern British Columbia.

• Victoria Nyanza, Northern

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15413a.htm
  Founded in 1878 by the White Fathers of Cardinal Lavigerie.

• Victoria Nyanza, Southern

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15413b.htm
  Vicariate apostolic erected from the mission of Nyanza.

• Victorinus, Caius Marius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15414b.htm
  A fourth-century grammarian, rhetorician, philosopher, and theologian.

• Victorinus, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15414a.htm
  Biographical profile of the bishop of Pettau, an ecclesiastical writer, martyred in the Diocletian persecution.

• Vida, Marco Girolamo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15415c.htm
  Italian Humanist.

• Vieira, Antonio

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15415d.htm
  Missionary, diplomat, orator. (1608-1697)

• Viel, Nicholas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15416a.htm
  Died 1625, the first victim of apostolic zeal on the shores of the St. Lawrence.

• Vienna

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15417a.htm
  The capital of Austria-Hungary, the residence of the emperor, and the seat of a Latin archbishopric.

• Vienna, University of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15421a.htm
  The oldest university of the former Holy Roman Empire, next to the University of Prague.

• Vienne, Council of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15423a.htm
  Convened 1311-1312, dealing mainly with the Knights Templar.

• Vierthaler, Franz Michael

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15425a.htm
  Austrian pedagogue. (1758-1827)

• Vieta, François

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15425b.htm
  Father of modern algebra.

• Viger, Denis-Benjamin

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15425c.htm
  French-Canadian statesman and writer. (1774-1861)

• Viger, Jacques

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15426a.htm
  French-Canadian antiquarian and archaeologist. (1787-1858)

• Vigevano

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15426b.htm
  Diocese in Lombardy, Province of Pavia.

• Vigilius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15427a.htm
  Bishop of Tapsus, in the African Province of Byzacena.

• Vigilius, Pope

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15427b.htm
  Reigned 537-55.

• Vigilius, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15426c.htm
  Biographical essay on the Bishop of Trent, martyred 26 June, 405.

• Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi da

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15428a.htm
  A theoretical and practical architect of the Transition Period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles. (1507-1573)

• Vigor, Simon

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15428b.htm
  French bishop and controversialist. (1515-1575)

• Villalpandus, Juan Bautista

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15429a.htm
  His fame rests mainly on a "Commentary on Ezechiel".

• Villani, Giovanni

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15429b.htm
  Florentine historian, b. about 1276; d. of the plague in 1348.

• Villanovanus, Arnaldus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15429c.htm
  Physician and alchemist. (1235-1312)

• Villefranche, Jacques-Melchior

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15430a.htm
  Publicist. (1829-1904)

• Villehardouin, Geoffroi de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15430b.htm
  Maréchal de Champagne, warrior, and first historian in the French language.

• Villeneuve-Barcement, Jean-Paul-Alban

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15431a.htm
  Vicomte de, b. at Saint-Auban, Var, 8 Aug., 1784; d. at Paris, 8 June, 1850.

• Villermé, Louis-René

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15431b.htm
  French economist. (1782-1863)

• Villers, Cistercian Abbey of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15431c.htm
  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

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15432a.htm
  The capital of Lithuania, situated at the junction of the Rivers Vileika and Vilja.

• Vincent de Paul, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15434c.htm
  Biography of the French priest, founder of the Congregation of the Mission, who died in 1660.

• Vincent Ferrer, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15437a.htm
  Biography of this Spanish-born Dominican missionary, who died in 1419.

• Vincent Kadlubek, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15438a.htm
  Bishop of Cracow, resigned his office and became the first Pole to join the Cistercians. He died in 1223.

• Vincent Mary Pallotti, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11429a.htm
  Biography of the founder of the Pious Society of Missions, who are commonly known as the Pallottine Fathers. He died in 1850.

• Vincent of Beauvais

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15439a.htm
  Priest and encyclopedist. (1190-1264)

• Vincent of Lérins, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15439b.htm
  Essay on the fifth-century monk and ecclesiastical writer.

• Vincent, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15434b.htm
  Essay on the deacon, a native of Saragossa, martyred in 304.

• Vincent, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15434a.htm
  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.

• Vincenzo de Vit

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15484a.htm
  Latinist. (1810-1892)

• Vinci, Leonardo di Ser Piero da

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15440a.htm
  Florentine painter, sculptor, architect, engineer and scholar. (1452-1519)

• Vindicianus, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15445a.htm
  Biography of the bishop of Cambrai-Arras, born about 620.

• Vineam Domini

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15445b.htm
  An Apostolic Constitution issued by Clement XI against the Jansenists on 16 July, 1705.

• Violence

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15446a.htm
  The stimulus or moving cause must come from without; no one can do violence to himself.

• Viotti, Giovanni Battista

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15447a.htm
  Founder of the modern school of violinist.

• Virgilius, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15447b.htm
  Essay on the monk, archbishop of Arles.

• Virgin Birth of Christ

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15448a.htm
  The dogma which teaches that the Blessed Mother of Jesus Christ was a virgin before, during, and after the conception and birth of her Divine Son.

• Virgin Mary, Devotion to the

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15459a.htm
  Devotion to Our Blessed Lady in its ultimate analysis must be regarded as a practical application of the doctrine of the Communion of Saints.

• Virgin Mary, Name of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15464a.htm
  The Hebrew form of her name is Miryam.

• Virgin Mary, The

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15464b.htm
  The Blessed Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, the mother of God.

• Virginia

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15451a.htm
  One of the thirteen original states.

• Virginity

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15458a.htm
  Morally, virginity signifies the reverence for bodily integrity which is suggested by a virtuous motive.

• Virtue

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm
  According to its etymology the word virtue (Latin virtus) signifies manliness or courage.

• Vischer, Peter

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15475a.htm
  Sculptor and metal founder. (1460-1529)

• Visdelou, Claude de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15476a.htm
  One of the missionaries sent to China by Louis XIV in 1687.

• Visigoths

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15476b.htm
  One of the two principal branches of the Goths.

• Visions and Apparitions

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15477a.htm
  The article deals not with natural but with supernatural visions, that is, visions due to the direct intervention of a power superior to man.

• Visit ad Limina

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15478a.htm
  The obligation incumbent on certain members of the hierarchy of visiting, the "thresholds of the Apostles", Sts. Peter and Paul, and of presenting themselves before the pope to give an account of the state of their dioceses.

• Visitation Convent, Georgetown

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15483c.htm
  Located in the District of Columbia, United States of America.

• Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15480a.htm
  Article on the event and the feast.

• Visitation Order

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15481a.htm
  The nuns of the Visitation of Mary, called also Filles de Sainte-Marie, Visitandines, and Salesian Sisters, were founded in 1610.

• Visitation, Canonical

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15479a.htm
  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.

• Visitors Apostolic

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15483a.htm
  Officials whom canonists commonly class with papal legates.

• Visits to the Blessed Sacrament

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15483b.htm
  A devotional practice of relatively modern development, honoring the Real Presence of Christ.

• Vitalian, Pope Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15484b.htm
  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

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15485a.htm
  Jurist, died 1388.

• Vitalis and Agricola, Saints

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15486b.htm
  Vitalis was a slave, converted to Christianity by his master Agricola. Both were martyred at Bologna about 304.

• Vitalis of Savigny, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15486c.htm
  Founder of the monastery and Congregation of Savigny. Died 1122.

• Vitalis, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15486a.htm
  Martyr in about 171. Husband of St. Valeria (also a martyr), and father of SS. Gervasius and Protasius.

• Vitelleschi, Muzio

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15486d.htm
  Born at Rome 2 Dec., 1563; died there 9 Feb., 1645.

• Vitellius, Lucius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15486e.htm
  Proclaimed Roman Emperor by the soldiers at Cologne during the civil war of A.D. 69; d. at Rome, 21 Dec., 69.

• Viterbo and Toscanella

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15487a.htm
  The city of Viterbo in the Province of Rome stands at the foot of Monte Cimino, in Central Italy.

• Vitoria

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15489a.htm
  Diocese; suffragan of Burgos, in Spain.

• Vittorino da Feltre

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15490a.htm
  Humanist educator. (1397-1446)

• Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia, Saints

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15490b.htm
  According to the legend, martyrs under Diocletian.

• Viva, Domenico

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15491a.htm
  Writer. (1648-1726)

• Vivarini

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15491b.htm
  A family of Italian painters. Alvise, Antonio, and Bartolommeo (Bartolommeo da Murano).

• Vives, Juan Luis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15492a.htm
  Article on his life and works, by Paul Lejay.

• Viviers

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15493a.htm
  Diocese; includes the Department of Ardèche, France.

• Vivisection

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15494a.htm
  Defined literally the word vivisection signifies the dissection of living creatures.

• Vizagapatam, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15496a.htm
  Located in the east of India, suffragan to Madras.

• Vizeu

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15496b.htm
  Diocese in north central Portugal.

• Vladimir the Great, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15497a.htm
  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

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15498a.htm
  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

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15501a.htm
  Theorist, composer, organist. (1749-1814)

• Vogüé, Eugène-Melchior, Vicomte de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15501b.htm
  Critic, novelist, and historian. (1848-1910)

• Volk, Wilhelm

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15501c.htm
  Pseudonym, Ludwig Clarus.

• Volksverein

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15502a.htm
  Organization of German Catholics opposing heresies and revolutionary tendencies in the social world, and for the defence of Christian order in society.

• Volta, Alessandro

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15503a.htm
  Physicist. (1745-1827)

• Volterra

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15504b.htm
  Diocese in Tuscany.

• Volterra, Daniele da

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15504a.htm
  Italian painter. (1509-1566)

• Voluntarism

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15505a.htm
  In the modern metaphysical sense is a theory which explains the universe as emanating ultimately from some form of will.

• Voluntary

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15506a.htm
  Wilful, proceeding from the will.

• Voluspa

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15507a.htm
  A wise woman.

• Von Gagern, Max, Freiherr

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15508a.htm
  Born at Weilburg (in Nassau), Germany, 25 March, 1810; died at Vienna, 17 October, 1889.

• Vondel, Joost van Den

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15507b.htm
  Netherland poet and convert. (1587-1679)

• Votive Mass

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15508b.htm
  A Mass offered for a votum, a special intention.

• Votive Offerings

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15509a.htm
  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

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15510a.htm
  One not entered in the general calendar, but adopted with a view to satisfying a special devotion.

• Vows

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15511a.htm
  A promise made to God.

• Vrau, Philibert

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15514a.htm
  "The holy man of Lille", organizer of numerous Catholic activities. (1829-1905)

• Vrie, Theodoric

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15515a.htm
  Fourteenth-century historian.

• Vulgate, Revision of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15515b.htm
  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.

 

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