4. Son of Zechariah and father of Athaiah, the last a descendant of Perez the son of Judah resident in Je- rusalem after the Exile (Neh. xi, 4). B.C. ante 536.
5. A priest of the "sons" of Harim who renounced his Gentile wife married after the return from Babylon (Ezra X, 21). B.C. 458.
Uzzi'el [some Uz'ziel] (Ileb. UzzieV, 5X^-Tj?, my strenfftk is God, or perh. sirajily stren(/lh of God— Uzziah [q. v.] ; Sept. '04'(»';X or 'OsaZ/X, with some v. rr. ; Vulg. Oziel), the name of six Hebrews.
1. Third named of the five sons of Bela son of Ben- I'amin, heads of valiant families (1 Chron. vii, 7). B.C. post 1874.
2. Last named of the four sons of Kohath (Exod. vi, 18; 1 Chron. vi, 2), also father of four sons (Exod. v, 22; 1 Chron. xxiii, 12, 20; xxiv. 24), and uncle of Aaron (Lev. x, 4). B.C. ante 1G58. His descendants
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were called after him (Numb, iii, 19, 27; 1 Chron. xxvi, 23), Elizaphan beinsf their chief in Closes' time (Numb, iii, 30), and Ammiiiadab iu David's (1 Cliron. XV, 10).
3. Third named of the fourteen "sons" of Heman appointed b\' David as Levitical musicians (1 Chri)n. XXV, 4) ; the same with Az.vrkkl ((j. v^.) the head of the eleventh band of orchestral performers (ver. 18).
4. Second named of the two sons of Jeduthun among the Levites, who, in the davs of king Hezekiah, took an active part in cleansing and sanctifying the Temple after all the pollutions introduced by Ahaz (2 Chron. xxix, 14). B.C. 726.
5. Last named of the four " sons" of Ishi, Siraeonitish chieftains who, after tlie successful expedition of the
tribe to the valley of Gedor, went at the head of tive hundred men, in the days of Hezekiah, to Mount Seir, and smote the remnant of the Amalekites who had survived the previous slaughter of Saul and David, and took possession of their country, and dwelt there " unto this day" (1 Chron. iv, 42). B.C. cir. 712.
6. A "son of llashaiah, of the goldsmiths," who re- paired part of the walls of Jerusalem after the Captivity (Neh. iii, 8). B.C. 44(5.
TTzzi'elite (Heb. Uzzieli', 'ibx"'-T3>, with the art., a patronymic ; Sept. 'O Ji^/X ; Vulg. OzielUes or Oziheli- tes}, the family designation (Numb, iii, 27; 1 Chron. xxvi, 23) of the descendants of Uzziel (q. v.) the Levitc In David's time they numbered 112 adult males (xv, 10 ).
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Vacant See, the territory under the control of a bishop which has become vacant by the death or ces- sion of tiie episcopal head. In the ancient African Church it was under the control of an inreiitor or iii/er- cessnr (q. v.), who was required to till the vacancy within one year or give place to another. But by the 25th canon of the General Council of Chalcedon (q. v.) the metropolitan was required to fill the vacant see within three months, if possible, under pain of ecclesi- astical censure. It devolved upon the metropolitans to care for these sees during the vacancy, but the Coun- cil of Chalcedon provided that the revenues should be cared for by the aconoinns, or steward of the Church. See Bingham, Christ. Antiq. bk. ii, ch. xi ; xv ; xvi.
Vacant Sundays, in liturgical phrase, are the four Sundays after Ember weeks (q. v.) which have no prop- er office, owing to the protracted service of ordination on the previous night; the Sunday between Christmas and Jan. 1, because preoccupied with another office : and the fourth Sunday in Advent, because the pope gave himself to almsgiving, as on Vacant Saturday, the day before Palm -Sunday. See Walcott, Sacred A rclueol. s. v.
Vacantivi (Grsecized jSaKavnlSoi) is a name ap- plied to wandering clergymen, in ancient times, who deserted their own churches and would fix on no other, but wandered about from place to place. Such persons, having neither letters dismissory nor letters commen- datory, and to be suspected either as deserters or as persons guilty of some misdemeanor who fled from ec- clesiastical censure, were not allowed by the laws of the Church to be admitted either to ecclesiastical or lay communion. So strict were the laws of the ancient Church in reference to the inferior clergy that they might not, upon any account, remove from the Church to which they were first appointed without the con- sent of the bishop who ordained them. See Bingham, Christ. Antiq. bk. vi, ch. iv. See Vaganxes.
Vacation, in clerical phrase, is the time from the death, resignation, or removal in any other way, of a bishii|) or other ecclesiastical officer, until the office is filled by another person; also the season of rest given to a minister during some part of the year.
VACATION OF A Benefice is the act of making vacant a rectory, vicarage, or other ecclesiastical bene- fice by the death, resignation, or deprivation of its legal holder.
VACATION OF A Bishopric. See Vacant Sees.
Vaccaro, Andrea, an Italian painter who was born at Naples in 1598. He studied with Massimo Stanzioni, after whose death he was considered the ablest artist of the Neapolitan school, and was without a rival until the return of Luca (iiordano from Rome with a new style. In the contest for the large altar- piece in the new church of Santa Maria del Piauti, rep- resenting the Virgin liberating the city from pestilence.