- VADIANI(Aug. Haer, 50), heretics, also called Aup1IaNI. [Avpius.] [C. H.]
- VALENS(1), a presbyter of Philippi mentioned by St. Polycarp (Ad Philip. § 11) as having caused a scandal in his church throug
- VALENTIANUSRoman curator of Russicada, who compelled Victor, bishop of that place, to burn the book of the four gospels which he ha
- VALENTINAJuly 25, virgin of Caesarea
- VALENTINIANUSwas a native of Cibalis in Pannonia, He entered the army, and having served with distinction, was captain of the
- VALENTINUS(1), (Ovadrevrivos), founder of one of the Gnostic sects which originated in the first half of the second century.
- VALENTIO(1), May 25, martyr aes Pale crates at Dorostorum (Silistria). He suffered under a president Maximus in the Diocletian p
- VALENTIUS(Vatentio, VALENTINUS), abbat, first of a monastery in the province of Valeria, and afterwards of Gregory the Great's ow
- VALERIA(1), Ap. 28. [Virauis (1).]
- VALERIA FALCONIA PROBA[Fat- r CONIA.] -
- VALERIANAmartyr with Victoria and Fidentius, a bishop. They seem to have been — numbered among the twenty martyrs who — had a chu
- VALERIANUSPUBLIUS LICI-— NIUS, emperor, belonged to a noble family. He was born probably about s.p. 190, and filled all th
- VALERIUS(1) (Vaumrranvs), June 14, martyr with Rufinus at Soissons, in 287. Their Passio was composed in the ninth century by Pa
- VALERY, ST[Wataricus.]
- VALGIUSan old man whose life was preserved in a wonderful manner in a shipwreck. In consequence of his deliverance, Valgius bec
- VALLAGASa presbyter of the church of Nisibis, who accompanied Domitianus, the oeconomus of the church of Constantinople, to Rome
- VARARANESson of Isdigerdes, and king of Persia in the earlier part of 5th cent. This prince persecuted the Christians with much v
- VARIMADUSan Arian, against whom was written the treatise Contra Varimodum bearing the name of Idatius Clarus, but believed to har
- VARNACHARIUS, VARNAHARIUS(WaRNAHARTUS), presbyter at Langres, ¢. A.D. 615. As a scholar and a man of some eminence, he was applied to by St. Cera
- VEDASTUS(Vaasr, Waasn), ST.,- first bishop of Arras and Cambray (cire. A.D. 500-540), assisted in the conversion of Clovis. His
- VENANTIUS(1), African bishop, Syn. 4 Carth. sub Cyp..4.D. 252, de Basilide, Cyp. Mp. 67; 49th suffrage in Sentt. Hpp. Syn. Carth.
- VENERANDUS(VEAv), seventh bishop of Clermont, succeeded Artemius, c. 394. He is classed with other well-known bishops in Gaul by P
- VENERIUS(J), bishop of Milan, to whom Aurelius bishop of Carthage in June 401, a season of dearth,. recommended that an envoy sh
- VENUSTIANI[Parernranr\]
- VENUSTUSMart. Carthage A.D. 250. See ARisTo. \ - [E. W. B.]
- VERAa lady in the family of Junranus (106). Jerome in a letter to him (Ep. 118 § 7, Jin.), mentions her eminent piety as sup
- VERANUS(1), ST., fourth bishop of Vence inthe 5th century, was a son of St. Eucherius, the famous bishop of Lyons, and Galla. W
- VERECUNDUS(1), a citizen of Milan and
- VERENAvirgin, martyr with St. Ursula. (Boll. Acta SS. 22 Jul. v. 187.) (J. GJ
- VERGILIUS MAROa Latin grammarian of the sixth or seventh century, The fragments of his works which remain are very im- portant, as rep
- VERGUNDUS[See Verzecunpvs.]
- VERIANUS(1), African bishop, Syn. Carth. sub Cyp. A.D. 252, Cyp. Ep. 57. (E. W. B.]
- VERIMODUS[See Dartus, Vol. I. 789.] (H. W. P.]
- VERINAempress, wife of Lro I., and cousin to thé wife of Juttus Nepos (Malchus), a person of great influence during the reign
- VERINUS(VAteErtus), vicar of Africa, A.D. 321, to whom Constantine wrote about removing the prohibition against the Donatists t
- VERONICA(4 aiuoppootoa), July 12, the woman whom our Lord cured of the bloody issue (Matt. ix. 20). Concerning her Eusebius tell
- VERRESbishop of Ombée. [Strvanvs (8).]
- VERSE-WRITERSPoetry, which in its lyric form is the natural outpouring of joy and in other forms is the attempt to express in the mos
- VERULUSbishop of Rusiccade, the port of Cirta and a Colonia, called in later MSS. "martyr de schismaticis," appears in Roman ma
- VERUS(1), bishop of Vienne, present at the council of Arles, A.D. 314. (Routh, Rel. Sacer. iv. 95.) (H. W. P.]
- VESPASIANUS, TITUS FLAVIUSemperor July 1, a.p. 69-June 24, A.D. 79, and his son TITUS, emperor June 24, a.p. 79-Sept. 13, AD, 81. As a great part
- VESTIANAa lady, an inmate of the female monastery conducted by Macrina, who re-- lated to Gregory Nyssen the circumstances of —
- VETRANIO(1), a pretender to the empire set up by the military at Sirmium in Mlyricum about A.D. 351. (Socrates, H. H. ii- 25, 28
- VETTIUS EPAGATHUSIn the early persecutions, the Christians felt it to be a gross injustice that a man should be put to death merely becau
- VIATRIXJuly 29 (alias BEarRIx), sister to the martyr FausTInus (25). She is called Beatrix in the Martyrologies. De Rossi, in h
- VICTOR(1), bishop of Rome after Elentherus, in the reigns of Commodus and Severus. His dates are variously given in the ancien
- VICTORIA(1), wife of presbyter Fetix (228), Cyp. Ep. 24. (E. W. B.]
- VICTORIANUS(4), a magistrate or " pro-consul " of Carthage, under the Vandal domina- tion, martyred under Hunneric for refusing to
- VICTORICUS(1), twenty-sixth bishop in Cone. Carth. ii. de Pace, Cyp. Ep. 57; thirty-fifth in iy. de Basilide, Cyp. Ep. 70; twenty-
- VICTORINUS- The tract against heresies by Pseudo-Tertullian closes with the notice of the heresy of Praxeas " quam Victorinus
- VICTORIUS(1), proconsul of Asia, to whom Theodosius addressed an edict April 15th, A.D. 394, prohibiting consecrations of bishops
- VICTRICIUS, STeighth archbishop of Rouen, at the close of the 4th and beginning
- VICTURINUS(1) (Vicror), ST., bishop of Grenoble, a correspondent of St. Avitus, of Vienne. Whether churches and church furniture,
- VICTURIUS(Victor), ST., fifth bishop of Le Mans, was, if his Acta are to be believed, consecrated by St. Martin of Tours (
- VIGILANTIAmother of the emperor Justinian I. [Jusrryranus (6).]
- VIGILANTIUS(1), a presbyter of Comminges and Barcelona in the end of the 4th aud beginning of the 5th century, known by his
- VIGILIUS(1), a bishop to whom Celsus (otherwise unknown) dedicated his Latin translation of the Dialogue between Jason and Papis
- VIGORseventh bishop of Bayeux, succeeded Contextus c, A.D. 514. He was born of noble and wealthy parents among the Atrebates,
- VILLICUSbishop of Metz, 543-568 (Gall. Chr. xiii. 688), addressed by Mappinius with much praise (Pat, Lat. lxviii. 43), and by D
- VIMINUS(Vimtus), bishop in Scotland, placed by Camerarius (De Scot. Fort. 88, Jan. 18) in Fifeshire, and dated by King (Kal. Ja
- VINCENTIUS(1), martyr a.p. 192. {Eusesius (108).]
- VINCOMALUS(1), a deacon, married to his deceased wife's sister, and on that account the subject ofa correspondence between his dio
- VINDICIANUSan eminent physician, men~
- VINNIANUSbishop of Clonard while St. Columba was a deacon. (Reeves, St. Adamnan. 104; Dempster, H. Z. Scot. ii. 649.) [FINNIAN
- VINNOCUSbishop of Rath-Easpuic-Innic, where he and St. Patrick were contemporaries and friends (Colgan, Zr. Th. 27, c. 71, et al
- VIRGILIUS(4), ST., twenty-fourth arch-
- VIRIGANTIUSmonk. Gregory the Great
- VIRObishop of Dublin or Glasgow (Bp. Forbes, Kals, 459; Camerarius, De Scot. Kort. 138, May 8). [Wu1Ro.] [J. G.]
- VIRTIUS(al. Brirrus), presbyter at Carthage, one of Cyprian's chief supporters in his absence (Cyp. Ep. 43), v. 1. Britius. F e
- VITALIANI[Virauvs.]
- VITALIANUS(1), a man of rank in Cappadocia and of a high religious profession, to whom Gregory Nazianzen addressed a poem in behal
- VITALIS(1), ST., Apr. 28th, a reputed martyr of Rayenna, chiefly interesting us as the patron saint of the famous church of tha
- VITALIUS(Viratis), the most. distinguished and influential of the disciples of Apollinaris, ordained by him bishop of his schism
- VITELLIUSan African Donatist writer mentioned by Gennadius (Ser. Zecl. 4). He flourished in the time of the emperor Constans, and
- VITONUS(Virontus), Nov. 9, bishop of Verdun, succeeded Firmus A.D. 502. His Life is given by Surius (Vit. SS. xi. 236) and Mabi
- VITUS(1) (Guy), ST., June 15th, a youthful martyr in the persecution of Diocletian. He was the son of a pagan gentleman in Si
- VIULANDUSGregory the Great requests the bishop of Rayenna to hear and determine without delay a suit between him and one of his d
- VIVENTIOLUS(1), a rhetorician who found fault with St. Avitus for pronouncing the second syllable of the word " potitur " long in a
- VIVENTIUSof Lyons. [VIVENTIOLUS. ] VIVENTIUS, a bishop in France, and one
- VIVIANDUS(Brranpus, Brsranus, VIBIANUS), second bishop of Saintes, succeeded Eutropius, and has a meagre tradition. The Vita, auc
- VOCIUSbishop of Lyons, present at the council of Arles a.p. 314 (Routh. Rel. Saer. iv. 95). PE WeuPsl
- VOCONIUSbishop of Castellanum in Mauretania, c. 460, author of a work Against Jews, Arians, and other Heretics, and another On t
- VODALIS(Vopvat, Sr. Vovet), Pictish priest, inclusus at St. Hildegarde's monastery of Soissons, died A.D. 720 (Innes, Civ. and
- VODINUS15th in the mythical list of British archbishops of London, as to which, see Osinus and Stubbs's Reg. Sac. 152,. He is s
- VOLAGESUSbishop of Nisibis, succeeded James in 361. He is mentioned in the Chronicle 'of Dionysius in 363, and according to the C
- VOLCATIUS GALLICANUSone of the writers of the Augustan History. He wrote the account of the usurper Avidius Cassius, A.D. 175, and dedicated
- VOLOCUSbishop. [Faxrtcuu (2).]
- VOLUSIANUSVIBIUS AFINIUS GALLUS VELDUMNIANUS, joint emperor with his father Gallus. At the end of a.p. 251 Gallus was proc
- VOLVENTIUSproconsul of Spain. [PRis-
- VULGANIUS(Woutaan), bishop and confessor, patron of Lens, dep. Pas-de-Calais, has a very uncertain tradition, but he appears to h
- VUSCFREAa son of Edwin, king of Northumbria, who was baptized by Paulinus, with Edwin and others, on Easter day, A.D. 627 (Beda,