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Navigate ScansNearby ArticlesVexilla Regis Prodeunt - This 'world-famous hymn, one of the grandest in the treasury of the Latin Church' (Neale), and 'surely one of the most stirring strains in our hymnology' (Duffield), was written by Venantius Fortunatus Antonio Francesco Vezzosi - Member of the Theatine Congregation and biographical writer, b. at Arezzo, Italy, October 4, 1708; d. in Rome, May 29, 1783 Jose Viader - B. at Gallimes, Catalonia, Aug. 27, 1765. He received the habit of St. Francis at Barcelona in May, 1788, joined the missionary College of San Fernando de Mexico in 1795, and was sent to California in the following year Viaticum - The Catechism of the Council of Trent (De Euch. sacr., n. 3) says: 'Sacred writers call it the Viaticum as well because it is the spiritual food by which we are supported in our mortal pilgrimage, as also because it prepares for us a passage to eternal gl Clerics of Saint Viator - St. Viator, lector of the cathedral at Lyons, France, lived in the fourth century and is the earliest type of the teacher of the cathedral schools. Vicar - In canon law, the representative of a person clothed with ordinary ecclesiastical jurisdiction
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