Veri, Anthony. See Ver.jus, Antoixe.
Veringer, Andreas, a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born at Herrenbcrg, Wiirtemberg, in the year 1553. In 1588 he was appointed deacon at his na- tive place; was called in 1590 as pastor to Chemnitz, in Hungary, and in 1595 to Feldsperg, in Austria. When the Lutherans had to leave the country, he re- turned to his native land; was in 1601 pastor at Ro- senfekl; advanced in 1603 as superintendent at Freuden- stadt ; was called in 1608 to Stuttgart; advanced there in 1609 as member of consistory and court-preacher; and died as abbot of Alpirspach Nov. 15, 1609. See Firchlin, Memoria Theolognriim IVurtonbergensium; Jocher, AUgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s. v. (B. P.)
Veritas, in Roman mythology, was the goddess of truth, whom the Greeks called 'AX/'/Sfiw, a daugliter of Jupiter or Saturn. She is also the mother of Virtue and Justice. She is represented as dressed in white.
Verjus, Antoine, a French Jesuit, brother of the diploniate Louis, was born in Paris, Jan. 22, 1632. Being admitted into that order at the age of nineteen, he taught the humanities for sotne time in Brittany, and then, by the royal order, joined the count of Crecy (his brother) in Germany (1672), where he was useful in diplomatic services. The remainder of his life was spent in laborious missionarj'^ work in India. He final- ly' died in Paris, May 16, 1706, leaving a number of his- torical and other works, for which see Hoefer, A'ouv. Biog. Ghieralo, s. v.
VerjiLS, FraiiQois, a French ecclesiastic, nephew of the preceding, was a priest of the Oratory, and was nominated bishop of Grasse. He died Dec. 7, 1710.
Verjus, Jean, a French preacher, brother of An- toine, was early educated for the Church, and, under the direction of the Jesuits, made such rapid (irogress in his studies that he was made doctor by the Sorbonne and sent to Rome, where he was engaged in literary labors under the protection of cardinal Ketz. He died in Paris in 1663, at the age of thirty-three.
Vermeule, Cornelius C, D.D., a minister of the Reformed (Dutch) Church, was born in 1786. He grad- uated at Queen's College in 1812, and at New Brims-
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wick Theological Seminary in 1814: was licensed by ' the Classis of New Hrunswick in 1814; ami was tutor in Rutgers College, 1812-14; professor of languages in Queen's College, 1814-15; ami pastor at Harlem, N. Y., 1816-36. He died Jan. 15. 1859. See Corwin, Manual of (he I'cJ', C/iiiirh in America, s. v.
Vermeyen, Jan Kornklis, a Dutch painter, was born at IJeverwyk, near Haarlem, in 1500. He was probably instructed by liis father, Cornelius, an ob- scure painter. Tlie emperor Charles V appointed him his principal painter, and he attended the monarch in all his expeditions, battles, sieges, and designed on the spot all the memorable events of the war by sea and land. In 1535 he was present at the siege and capture of Timis, and made designs of the principal events, from which he afterwards executed cartoons for the tapestry of the Escurial. But most of the works which he ex- ecuted for the emperor are supposed to have perished in the conflagration of the Prailo. Tlie latter part of his life he spent at Brussels, where he executed many works for the churches and jniblic edifices. These are highly commended by Vau Mander. In the Church of St. Gery are two of his pictures, the Nativity and the Resurrection. He was also an engraver, but did not achieve great distinction in this department. He often received the names Johannes Barbatus, Barhaloruia, Barbato, and similar titles, from the fact that he had a very long beard, which he is said to have cultivated with such care that it grew to his feet; and the emperor, in his merry moods, would tread upon it. He died in 1599. See Spooner, Biog. Hist, of the Fine A rts, s. v.
Verniigli ( Lat, I'ermulius), ordinarily known as Pe- ter Martyr from his baptismal names, was the most learned and celebrated of Italian Protestants in the 16th century. He belonged to a patrician family of Florence, where he was born Sept. 8, 1500. He entered 'the Augustine convent at Fiesole in 1516. His father had destined him for the service of the State, and dis- inherited him when he entered the monastery. In 1519 he went to Padua to complete his studies. He studied Greek without a teacher, made himself acquainted with the Aristotelian philosophy, and developed considerable dialectical aliility. In theologj' he passed beyond the narrow limits of the scholastic curriculum, and read sev- eral of the Churcli fatliers. When twenty-six years of age, he was sent out to preach in difl'crent towns of Italy. He also lectured on literature and philosophy in vari- ous convents of his order. He read the New Test, in the original, and employed a Jewish physician at Bo- logna to teach him the Hebrew language. He became abbot of Spoleto and prior of St. Peter's ad Aram in Naples. Here he was introduced into the circle which Juan Valdes (q. v.) had gathered about him; and the evangelical influence of that association and of the elo- (pient Ochino (q. v.), whom he met in 1539, decided his future course. He attained to faith in the justification of man through Christ, and taught this and other doc- trines of the Reformers in the school and the convent. In 1541 he was elected visitator of his order. His strict- ness in the performance of the duties of that office drew upon him tlie dislike of the monks, and led to his being transferred to Lucca as prior of San Frediano. He now invited a number of scholars who were inclined to ac- cept the Gospel to aid in training the novices joined with them in the study of the writings of the Reform- ers in Germany and Switzerland, preached and taught in the same spirit — as did also his vicar and Don Con- stantine, the |irior of Fregionara — and organized a con- gregation of evangelical Christians. At this juncture the Inquisition interfered; several of Martyr's friends were apprehended, and he fled to Switzerland, pausing at Pisa to write a letter of separation from the papacy, which he couched in the form of an exposition of the Apostles' Creed. Alter a brief delay he obtained the situation of professor of the Old-Test. Scriptures, and speedily obtained a high reputation as a teacher. He