AUBRY, NOËL-VÉRAN. - Ascetical writer, born at Orgon (Avignon) on 23 March 1719, died at Avignon on 8 January 1756. He entered the Congregation of the Mission in 1739 and was ordained priest in 1742. From 1747 until nearly the time of his death he served as chaplain and then parish priest at S. Marta in Tarascona.
He published a *Manuale christianorum in quattuor libros divisum*: an opus that is most useful both to all Christians and especially to religious and ecclesiastical men, which his contemporaries called “worthy of the *Imitation of Christ*” and which is still in circulation among the clergy (Malines 1906). Issued anonymously in Paris in 1754, it went through many editions and was translated, under various titles, into French (1774) and Spanish (1808).