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History of the Catholic Church in Florida; contribu- tor to various periodicals.

ARTICLES: Florida; V^rot, Augustine.

Vella, Revekend Antonio, b. at Victoria, Gozo, 25 October, 1871. Education: government schools and Diocesan Seminary, Gozo. Ordained 1894; former professor of Latin, Italian, and mathematics, and, at present, professor of philosophy, Seminary, Gozo; chaplain. Civil Hospital, Gozo. Author of various books and pamphlets; contributor to various Italian periodicals; editor of two local monthly periodicals.

ARTICLE : Gozo, Diocese of.

Vella, Reverend Philip Xavieb, s.j., Ph.D., D.D., b. at Valletta, Malta, 2 August, 1844. Educa- tion: Enghsh Jesuit College, Valletta; Gregorian University, Rome; Jesuit scholasticates, Roehamp- ton, London, and Laval, France. Entered the Society of Jesus 1858; professor of Classics and mathematics, Jesuit College, Mondragone, Italy, 1869; exiled from Rome 1870; ordained 1872; profes- sor at the Seminary, Blois, France, 1875; minister, St. Ignatius English College, Valletta, 1877; returned to Rome 1882; professor of physics and chemistry, Gregorian University, Rome, 1892-1901; administra- tor of the South American College, Rome, 1901-1909; stationed at the Pontifical Leonine CoUege, Anagni, Italy, 1909, and later at Strada (Tuscany) and Bologna. Member of the Pontifical Academy of "Nuova Lincei". ARTICLE: American College, The South, in Rome.

Venneersch, Reverend ARTHnB, s.j., ll.d., J.C.D., b. at Ertvelde, East Flanders, Belgium, 26 August, 1858. Education: Episcopal College, Ert- velde; Jesuit colleges, LiSge and Namur, Belgium; University and Jesuit scholasticate, Louvain; Gre- gorian University, Rome. Entered the Society of Jesus 1879; professor of Latin humanities, Jesuit College, Namur, 1884r-1886; ordained 1889; assistant Novice Master, Jesuit scholasticate, Tronchiennes, Belgium, 1891-1892; then professor of canon law (1892- ) and subsequently also of moral theology, Jesuit scholasticate, Louvain; collaborator in the codification of canon law ordered by Pius X, 1904. Founded the review "De religiosis et missionariis", 1905; took notable stand by his writings on the Congo question, 1906; vice-president of the Colonial Section, Catholic Congress, Mechlin, 1909; one of the founders of the "Revue Congolaise", 1910; founder of the Society for Moral and Juridical Studies; Vice-President of the General Section, International Congress of Home Education, Brussels, 1910; presi- dent of one of the sections. International Agricultural Congress, Brussels, 1910. Member of the Belgian Committee for the Legal Protection of Laborers; vice-president, Society of Social Economy, Brussels; Knight of the Order of Leopold. Author of : " Manuel Social", 2 vols. (3 eds.), winning for its author the quinquennial prize for Social Sciences; "Quaestiones de Justitia" (2 eds.), resulting in a Brief from Leo XIII to its author; "La nouvelle Encyclique sociale", meriting a Brief from Leo XIII; "La Question Congolaise"; "Les destindes du Congo Beige"; "Le Beige et la Personne civile"; "De Prohibitione et Censura Librorum" (4 eds.) ; "De Religiosis Institutis et Personis", 2 vols.; "De Vocatione ReUgiosa et Sacerdotali"; "Meditations sur la Sainte Vierge", 2 vols. (2 eds.; also Flemish ed.); "Pratique et doctrine de la Devotion au Sacr6-Coeur", 2 vols. (4 eds.); "De forma SponsaUum ac Matrimonii" (4 eds.); "De Modernismo", "Acta Sanctse Sedis" (2 eds.); "Les Missions Catholiques au Congo Beige", pamphlet; "La peur de I'enfant dans les classes dirigeantes"; "L'int6ret et le devoir en Belgique"; "Meditations sur S. Jean Berchmans";

"La question Flamande"; "Pour I'honnStete con- jugale (3 eds.); "Litanies de Coeur de Ji5sus"; "Cas de conscience sur I'introduction de travail dans certaines usines", conferences; "Nouvelles r^ponses sur les ddcrets des fiangailles et du mariage"; "Le probleme de la nataKtS en Belgique"; "Matrimonio e neomalthusianismo saggio ecUgiososo medico- sooiali", translated into Italian by Marconcini; "De Prima puerorum communione", periodical. Vols. I-V; etc., etc.; various tracts; edited Boutauld, "M^thode pour converser avec Dieu", 2 vols. (tr. into Italian; 2nd vol. tr. into English); contributor to: "Revue eccMsiastique de LiSge"; "Messager du Sacr^ Coeur"; "Etudes"; "Revue apolog^tique"; "Man- resa " ; "Etudes scientifiques et Uttdraires " ; "Nouvelle Revue TMologique"; "Revista social" (Barcelona); "Revue des questions scientifiques"; "Mouvement sooiologique"; "Le Patriote"; "Le Peuple"; "Hooger Leven"; "Etoile"; "Bien Public"; "Tribune Apolo- gy tique"; "Revue sociale Catholique"; "Pays Wallon".

ARTICLES: Cloister; Congo Independent State and Congo Missions; Descl^b, Henri; Interest; Modernism; Novice; Nuns; Obedience, Religious; Postulant; Poverty; Profession, Religious; Provincial; Regulars; Religious Life; Usury; Veil, Religious; Virginity; Vocation, Ec- clesiastical AND Religious; Vows.

Verwyst, Reverend Chrysostom (Christian Adrian Verwtst), o.f.m., b. at Uden, North Brabant, Holland, 23 November, 1841. Education: Holy Trinity School, Boston, Massachusetts; St. Francis Seminary, St. Francis, Wisconsin, under Professor (afterwards Archbishop) Heiss. Came to the United States 1848; ordained 1865; engaged in parish and mission work at various times at New London, Hudson, Seneca, and Superior, Wisconsin, Duluth, Minnesota, St. Louis, Missouri, and Los Angeles and Fruitvale, California, 1865-1882; entered the Franciscan Order 1882; missionary for many years among the Indians of Northern Wisconsin; former assistant at St. Agnes Church, Ashland, and, at present at Holy Family Church, Bayfield, Wiscon- sin. Member of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Author of: "Missionary Labors of Marquette"; "Life of Bishop Baraga"; "Mikana gijigong" ("Chip- pewa Exercises"), prayer-book; "Enamiad gegiki- mind" ("Instructed Christian"); "Anishinabe En- amiad" ("Christian Indian"), periodical. ARTICLE: Baraga, Frederic.

Victoria, Sister Mart (Caroline Drees), c.pp.s., Sister of the Most Precious Blood, b. at Minster, Ohio, 14 March, 1863. Education: parochial schools and St. Mary's Institute, Minster, Ohio; Normal and Training Schools of Sisters of Most Precious Blood, Maria Stein, Ohio, and of Sisters of Providence, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. En- tered the Congregation of the Most Precious Blood 1884; has held the posts of assistant teacher at the Normal School (five years), and (twelve years) principal of the Training School, Maria Stein, Ohio, and directress of the schools of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood in the United States (six years) ; assistant to the superior general, stationed at Maria Stein, 1911-

ABTICLE: Precious Blood, Sisters of the.

Vieban, Reverend Anthony, s.s.j j.c.d., s.t.d., b. in France, 1872. Education: Ecclesiastical College and Seminary, Tulle, France; Catholic Institute, Paris. Ordained 1895; entered, the Sulpician Order 1898; professor of canon law and dogmatic theology, St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, Maryland, 1898- 1909; professor of dogmatic theology, St. John's Seminary, Brighton, Massachusetts, 1909-1911; proc- urator and instructor in pastoral theology. Catholic University, Washington, 1911; at present professor of moral theology, fourth year, and canon law, St.