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of all hands at the pumps. A careless sailor burned off its rigging. The provisions gave out, so that rats and mice were eagerly devoured, as were also shoes and log- wood chips. The water also failed. But the port of Blavet, in Brittany, was finally reached, JMay 'it!, 1558, and the passengers dispersed to their homes. A casket, sent over by Villegaignon, was delivered to the magis- trate of Hennebon, and, on being opened, was fomid to contain a fidly executed legal process intended to de- liver the returned colonists over to destruction. The magistrate, however, disregarded the plan, and aided the proposed victims to continue their journey. Kicher became pastor at La Kochelle, and lived to see the first siege of that place. John de Lery died later as ])astor at Berne. Soon afterwards the colony was wholly given up, and Villegaignon returned to France. Cointa had previously been banished from the island, and was never heard of afterwards. The Portuguese stormed the fort, cut down the remaining garrison as heretics, and con- veyed the canniui to Lisbon. In later life Villegaignon wrote a violent letter against the Palatine Frederick III, on the occasion of his introducing the Reformed doc- trine into his principality, and was answered by Peter Boquin. He died miserably in 1571. He had destroy- ed the earliest foreign missionary enterprise of the Evan- gelical Church, and given to that cause its earliest mar- tyrs.
See Lerius Burgimdus, f/isf. Navi()at. in Brasil. etc. (Genev. 1586); Thuanus, Hist, sui Temp. (Offenbach, 1609); Crespin, Hist, des Maiiyrs; Beza, Hist. Ecdes.; Calvin, Epist. et Respmis. (Genev. 1575) ; Baj'le, Diet. Hist, et Crit. s. v. "Villegaignon" and s. v. '•Richer;" Struve, Pfdlz. Kirclienhist. ( Frankf. 1721). — Herzog, Heal-Eiicyldop. s. v.
Villegas-Marmolejo, Pedro dk, a Spanish painter, was born at Seville in 1520. He is supposed to have studied in Italy. He executed some paintings for the churches and public edifices of Seville, and his best productions are said to equal those of Pedro Cam- pana, to whom his Visitation of the Virgin Mary to St. Elizabeth, in the cathedral, has often been attributed. He died in 1597. See Spoon er, iJior/. Hist, of the Fine A rts, s. v.
Villeneuve, Hospital Sisthiks of. This con- gregation was founded at Paris, about the middle of the 17th century, by Ange le Proust, an Aiigiistinian prior of Lamballe. lu 1662 several noble ladies were united in a society, un- der his direction, for the relief of the poor in hospitals, and from this grew the congregation, which was named in honor of the recent can- onization of St. Thomas de Villeneuve. It was approved by a bull of In- nocent XH. Le Proust gave to it the Augustin- iin rule, and before his death it counted thirty- six houses. Uniler his successors it has flour- ished and spread over France, and especially in Brittany, including at a recent date forty large establishments. By the statutes of its founder it cannot be carried into any other country. The parent house in Paris was the only religious
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good work in relievinc; the victims of the massacres of 17i>2. The vows of tlie sisterhood are the same as the other sisters of their order. They worl< in poor-lioiis's, prisons, houses of refuge, hospitals, and asylums for the ajfed. — Mis^ne'sllelyot, (>/•<//■« /^t/iy/e»a-,iii, 909; iv, 14U).
Villeueuve, Tiiojias de. See Vii.lanova, Thom- as 01-.
Villiers, Cosme de, a French ecclesiastic his- torian, was born al Si. Denis, near Paris, Sept. 8, 1083. He was educated at tlie College of Ilarcourt, took the rule of the Carmelites, taught philosophy at I'loerinel, and theology at Nantes, Hennebon, and St. I'ol of Leon, and after 1727 gave himself to preaching. He finally went to Orleans as director of the Convent of St. Maile- leine. and died in 1758, leaving a Bibliut/itcu Cannditi- (■(( (Orleans, 1752, "2 vols. fol.).
Villiers, Henry Montague, D.D., a prelate of the Church of iMighuul, was born in London, Jan. 4, 1813. His father was the Hon. (ieorge Villiers, son of the earl of Clarendon. After tuition in a jirivate school, he went to Christ Church, Oxford, and grailuated in 1834; was ordained deacon in 183G, and priest in the next year, when he received from the lord chancellor the vicarage of Kenihvorth. Previous to this he had been curate of Deane, Lancashire. In 1841 he was ap- pointed rector of St. (ieorge's, Bloomsbury; in 1847 can- on of St. Paul's Catliedral, in 1856 bishop of Carlisle, and in 18(i0 he was transferred to the see of Durham. He dieil Aug. 0, 18()i. Bishop Villiers had a very com- manding presence, and his well-modulated voice, his dignitied manner, and his evident sincerity greatly con- tributed to his success. As specimens of composition there was little in his sermons, and when read they seem tame productions, as, indeed, is frequently the case with the lectures of mere pulpit orators. As a London clergyman he was most exemplary. Affable, genial, and kind, he was universally liked, and his devotion to the poor of his flock was earnest and real. He pub- lished two volumes of sermons of average literary mer- it, and several little books of family prayers, tracts, etc., on which his fame will not rest. In his religious views he was an ardent Evangelical, and a determined foe to anything savoring of Migh-Churchism.