Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Valpuesta, Pedro a Spanish painter, born at Osma, in Old Castile, in 1614. He is said to have studied with Eugenio Caxes; whose style he was the most successful in. imitating. He died at Madrid in 1688. His principal works are in the churches and convents at Madrid. The most important are a series of … Continue reading “Valpuesta, Pedro”

Valor See Courage Courage Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible

Valona Titular see, suffragan of Dyrrachium, in Epirus Nova. The ancient name was Aulon, mentioned for the first time by Ptolemy (Geographia, III, xii, 2). Other geographical documents, such as Peutinger’s “Tabula” and the “Synecdemus” of Hierocles, also mention it. Among the known bishops are Nazarius, in 458, and Soter, in 553 (Farlati, “Illyricum sacrum”, … Continue reading “Valona”

Valois, Henri (HENRICUS VALESIUS). Philologist, b. at Paris, 10 Sept., 1603; d. at Paris, 7 May, 1676. He belonged to a family of Norman gentlemen settled near Bayeux and Liseux; his grandfather, the youngest of the family, became rich in trade in Paris. Henri Valois made excellent studies with the Jesuits, first at Verdun and … Continue reading “Valois, Henri”

Valois, Felix of, Saint Confessor , founder of the Order of the Holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives, born province of Valois, France , 1127 ; died Cerfroi, 1212 . Of the noble family of Valois, he renounced all his possessions at an early age, to live a life of prayer and contemplation in … Continue reading “Valois, Felix of, Saint”

Valois, Felix de a pious Frenchman who, in company with John of Matiha (q.v.), founded the Order of. Brethrene of the Holy Trinity, for the redemption of captives, in the early part of the 13th century. He led a solitary life at Cerfroi, in the diocese of Meaux, where the principal house of the sect … Continue reading “Valois, Felix de”

Valle-Poussin, Charles-Louis-Joseph-Xavier Professor of geology and mineralogy at the Catholic University of Louvain (1863), doctor honoris causa of the same university (1876), foreign member of the Académie Royale de Belgique (1885), vice president of the directing council of the geological map of Belgium (1903), born at Namur in 1827; died at Brussels, 1903. De la … Continue reading “Vallée-Poussin, Charles-Louis-Joseph-Xavier”

Vallumbrosan Order The name is derived from the motherhouse, Vallombrosa (Latin Vallis umbrosa, shady valley), situated 20 miles from Florence on the northwest slope of Monte Secchieta in the Pratomagno chain, 3140 feet above the sea. I. THE FOUNDER St. John Gualbert, son of the noble Florentine Gualbert Visdomini, was born in 985 (or 995), … Continue reading “Vallumbrosan Order”

Vallonia in Roman mythology, was the nymph of valleys. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Vallombrosa (shady valley), a former Benedictine monastery in a valley of the Apennines, eighteen miles from Florence, founded in 1039 by Giovanni Gualberto (q.v.). The present buildings were erected: in 1638, but the establishment was suppressed in 1869 by the Italian government, and. the buildings converted into a royal school of forestry. Fuente: Cyclopedia of … Continue reading “Vallombrosa”