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• Via Crucis: (Also called Stations of the Cross, Via Crucis, and Via ...
• Via Dolorosa: (Also called Stations of the Cross, Via Crucis, and Via ...
• Viader, José: Born at Gallimes, Catalonia, 27 August, 1765. He received the ...
• Vianney, Saint Jean-Baptiste-Marie: Curé of Ars, born at Dardilly, near Lyons, France, on ...
• Viaticum: Name Among the ancient Greeks the custom prevailed of giving ...
• Viator, Clerics of Saint: St. Viator, lector of the cathedral at Lyons, France, lived ...
• Viborg, Ancient See of: (VIBERGAE, VIBERGENSIS.) The ancient See of Viborg, in ...
• Vicar: ( Latin vicarius , from vice , "instead of") In canon ...
• Vicar Apostolic: (1) In the early ages of the Church, the popes committed to ...
• Vicar Capitular: The administrator of a vacant diocese, elected by a ...
• Vicar of Christ: (Latin Vicarius Christi ). A title of the pope implying ...
• Vicar-General: The highest official of a diocese after the ordinary. He is a ...
• Vicari, Hermann von: Archbishop of Freiburg in Baden, b. at Aulendorf in ...
• Vicariate Apostolic (Updated List): The following is an account of the newly-erected vicariates ...
• Vice: ( Latin vitium , any sort of defect) is here regarded as a ...
• Vicelinus, Saint: Bishop of Oldenburg, apostle of Holstein, b. at Hameln about ...
• Vicente, Gil: Portuguese dramatist, b. about 1470; he was living in 1536. He ...
• Vicenza, Diocese of: (VICENTINA). The city is the capital of a province in ...
• Vich, Diocese of: (Vicensis, Ausonensis). Suffragan of Tarragona, bounded on ...
• Vico, Francescoe de: Astronomer, b. at Macerata, States of the Church, 19 May, 1805; ...
• Victimae Paschali Laudes Immolent Christiani: The first stanza of the Easter sequence. Medieval missals ...
• Victor: Bishop of Tunnunum (Tonnenna, Tunnuna) in Northern Africa ...
• Victor I, Pope Saint: (189-198 or 199), date of birth unknown. The "Liber ...
• Victor II, Pope: (GEBHARD, COUNT OF CALW, TOLLENSTEIN, AND HIRSCHBERG.) Born ...
• Victor III, Pope Blessed: (DAUFERIUS or DAUFAR). Born in 1026 or 1027 of a non-regnant ...
• Victor IV: Two antipopes of this name. I. Cardinal Gregory Conti, ...
• Victor of Capua: A sixth-century bishop about whose life nothing is known ...
• Victor Vitensis: An African bishop of the Province of Byzacena (called ...
• Victoria: (VICTORIEN. IN INS. VANCOUVER.) Diocese in southwestern ...
• Victoria Nyanza, Northern: The Mission of Victoria Nyanza, founded in 1878 by the White ...
• Victoria Nyanza, Southern: Vicariate apostolic erected from the mission of Nyanza, 13 ...
• Victorinus, Caius Marius: (Called also VICTORINUS MARIUS, or MARIUS FABIUS VICTORINUS, and ...
• Victorinus, Saint: An ecclesiastical writer who flourished about 270, and who ...
• Vida, Marco Girolamo: Italian Humanist, b. at Cremona about 1490; d. in 1566. He ...
• Vieira, Antonio: Missionary, diplomat, orator, b. at Lisbon, 6 February, 1608; ...
• Viel, Nicholas: Died 1625, the first victim of apostolic zeal on the shores of ...
• Vienna: Vienna -- the capital of Austria-Hungary, the residence of the ...
• Vienna, University of: Foundation of the University Next to the University of Prague ...
• Vienne, Council of: Pope Clement V, by the Bull "Regnans in coelis" of 12 Aug., ...
• Vierthaler, Franz Michael: A distinguished Austrian pedagogue, b. at Mauerkirchen, Upper ...
• Vieta, François: (VIÈTE.) Father of modern algebra, b. at ...
• Viger, Denis-Benjamin: French-Canadian statesman and writer, b. at Montreal, 19 ...
• Viger, Jacques: French-Canadian antiquarian and archaeologist, b. at ...
• Vigevano: (VIGLEVANENSIS.) Diocese in Lombardy, Province of Pavia. ...
• Vigilius: Bishop of Tapsus, in the African Province of Byzacena. ...
• Vigilius, Pope: Reigned 537-55, date of birth unknown; died at Syracuse, 7 ...
• Vigilius, Saint: Bishop of Trent, martyr, patron of Trent and of Tyrol, b. ...
• Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi da: A theoretical and practical architect of the Transition Period ...
• Vigor, Simon: French bishop and controversialist, b. at Evreux, Normandy, ...
• Vikings: The Scandinavians who, in the ninth and tenth centuries, first ...
• Villalpandus, Juan Bautista: Born at Cordova, Spain, in 1552; entered the Society of Jesus ...
• Villani, Giovanni: Florentine historian, b. about 1276; d. of the plague in 1348. ...
• Villanovanus, Arnaldus: (ARNALDUS OF VILLANUEVA, or VILLENEUVE, or BACHUONE). ...
• Villefranche, Jacques-Melchior: Publicist, b. at Couzon-sur-Saone, 17 Dec., 1829; d. at Bourg, ...
• Villehardouin, Geoffroi de: Maréchal de Champagne, warrior, and first historian in ...
• Villeneuve-Barcement, Jean-Paul-Alban: Vicomte de, b. at Saint-Auban, Var, 8 Aug., 1784; d. at Paris, ...
• Villermé, Louis-René: French economist, b. at Paris, 10 March, 1782; d. there, 16 ...
• Villers, Cistercian Abbey of: Situated on the confines of Villers and Tilly, Duchy of Brabant, ...
• Vilna: (VILENSIS). Vilna, the capital of Lithuania, is situated at ...
• Vincent de Paul, Saint: Born at Pouy, Gascony, France, in 1580, though some ...
• Vincent de Paul, Sisters of Charity of Saint: A congregation of women with simple vows, founded in 1633 ...
• Vincent de Paul, Sisters of Charity of Saint (New York): (Motherhouse at Mt. St. Vincent-on Hudson, New York; not to be ...
• Vincent de Paul, Society of Saint: An international association of Catholic laymen engaging ...
• Vincent Ferrer, Saint: Famous Dominican missionary, born at Valencia, 23 January, ...
• Vincent Kadlubek, Blessed: (KADLUBO, KADLUBKO). Bishop of Cracow, chronicler, b. at ...
• Vincent of Beauvais: Priest and encyclopedist. Little is known of his personal ...
• Vincent of Lérins, Saint: Feast on 24 May, an ecclesiastical writer in Southern Gaul in ...
• Vincent, Saint: (MALDEGARIUS). Founder and abbot of the monasteries of ...
• Vincent, Saint: Deacon of Saragossa, and martyr under Diocletian, 304; ...
• Vincentians: A congregation of secular priests with religious vows ...
• Vincenzo de Vit: Latinist, b. at Mestrina, near Padua, 10 July, 1810; d. at Domo ...
• Vinci, Leonardo di Ser Piero da: (LEONARDO DI SER PIERO DA VINCI) Florentine painter, ...
• Vindicianus, Saint: Bishop of Cambrai - Arras, b. if tradition is to be ...
• Vineam Domini: An Apostolic Constitution issued by Clement XI against the ...
• Violence: Violence ( Latin vis ), an impulse from without tending to ...
• Viotti, Giovanni Battista: Founder of the modern school of violinist, b. at Fontanetto, ...
• Viraggio, Jacopo di: ( Also DI VIRAGGIO). Archbishop of Genoa and medieval ...
• Virgilius, Saint: (VIRGILE). Archbishop of Arles, died c. 610. According to a ...
• Virgin Birth of Christ: The dogma which teaches that the Blessed Mother of Jesus ...

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• Vischer, Peter: Sculptor and metal founder, b. at Nuremberg about 1460; d. ...
• Visdelou, Claude de: Born at the Château de Bienassis, Pléneuf, ...
• Visigoths: One of the two principal branches of the Goths. Until 375 their ...
• Visions: This article will deal not with natural but with supernatural ...
• Visit ad Limina: (Sc. Apostolorum ) The visit ad limina means, ...
• Visitation Convent, Georgetown: Located in the District of Columbia , United States of ...
• Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary: I. THE EVENT Assuming that the Annunciation and the ...
• Visitation Order: The nuns of the Visitation of Mary, called also Filles de ...
• Visitation, Canonical: The act of an ecclesiastical superior who in the discharge of ...
• Visitors Apostolic: Officials whom canonists commonly class with papal legates. ...
• Visits to the Blessed Sacrament: By this devotional practice, which is of comparatively modern ...
• Vitalian, Pope Saint: (Reigned 657-72). Date of birth unknown; d. 27 January, 672. ...
• Vitalini, Bonifazio: (DE VITALINIS). Jurist, b. at Mantua, Italy, about 1320; ...
• Vitalis and Agricola, Saints: Martyred at Bologna about 304 during Diocletian's ...
• Vitalis of Savigny, Saint: Founder of the monastery and Congregation of Savigny ...
• Vitalis, Saint: Martyr. His legend, which is of little historical value, ...
• Vitelleschi, Muzio: Born at Rome 2 Dec., 1563; died there 9 Feb., 1645. He ...
• Vitellius, Lucius: Proclaimed Roman Emperor by the soldiers at Cologne during the ...
• Vitensis, Victor: An African bishop of the Province of Byzacena (called ...
• Viterbo and Toscanella: (VITERBIENSIS ET TUSCANENSIS). The city of Viterbo in the ...
• Vitoria: (VICTORIENSIS). Diocese ; suffragan of Burgos, in Spain, ...
• Vittorino da Feltre: (VITTORINO DE' RAMBALDONI). Humanist educator, b. at Feltre, ...
• Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia, Saints: According to the legend, martyrs under Diocletian ; feast, ...
• Viva, Domenico: Writer, b. at Lecce, 19 Oct., 1648; d. 5 July, 1726. He ...
• Vivarini: A family of Italian painters. Alvise Vivarini Born in 1446 ...
• Vives, Juan Luis: Spanish humanist and philosopher, b. at Valencia, 6 March, ...
• Viviers: (VIVARIUM). Diocese ; includes the Department of ...
• Vivisection: Defined literally the word vivisection signifies the dissection ...
• Vizagapatam, Diocese of: Located in the east of India, suffragan to Madras. It is ...
• Vizeu: (VISENSIS). Diocese in north central Portugal. The ...

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