Enciclopedia Cattolica

VERALLO, GIROLAMO

Volume XII · p. 796 · 1954

English translation · Testo originale italiano

VERALLO, GIROLAMO. - Cardinale, n. a Cori ca. il 1497, m. a Roma il 10 ott. 1555.
VERALLO, GIROLAMO. - Cardinale, n. a Cori ca. il 1497, m. a Roma il 10 ott. 1555.

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

VERALLO, GIROLAMO

Cardinal. b. at Cori ca. 1497, d. at Rome 10 Oct. 1555.

Having entered the ecclesiastical career under the protection of Paul III, he became referendary of the Segnatura, auditor of the Rota (1539), bishop of Bertinoro (1540-41), of Caserta (1541-44), archbishop of Rossano (1544-51). In April 1535 he was sent to the Emperor Charles V on a special mission concerning the Duchy of Camerino. From 1537 to February 1540 he was nuncio at Venice, where he conducted a process against the calumniators of St Ignatius, whom he assisted and with whose companions he remained always on friendly terms. Nuncio in Germany to Ferdinand I (1541), he then passed to the court of Charles V (February 1545-September 1547). Subsequently he had to concern himself especially with the opening of the Council of Trent and the war against the Smalcaldic League. Created cardinal on 8 April 1549, on 8 September 1551 Julius III sent him to France to Henry II to bring about the cessation of the war of Mirandola, but he was unable to achieve anything. On his return he became a member of the Inquisition (1552-53) and of several commissions.

BIBL.: S. Viola, Memorie storiche dell'antichissima città di Cori, Roma 1825, pp. 50-64; Moroni, XCIII, pp. 224-26; St. Ehs, Concilii Tridentini, IV, Friburgo in Br. 1904, V. indice; H. Biaudet, Les nonciatures apostoliques permanentes jusqu'en 1648, Helsinki 1910, pp. 96, 101-102; L. Romier, La crise gallicane.

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VERA CRUZ, ARCHDIOCESE OF

Church with bell-tower (19th cent.). Vera Cruz.

The unjust sentence and the time of his exile he employed in writing spiritual books and letters. In 1343 Clement V restored to him the faculty of preaching and hearing confessions and on 4 January 1344 sent him back to Italy to preach the Crusade against the Turks. Soon a remarkable popular enthusiasm arose around him; many set out on the Crusade, and he himself went to Smyrna (1 March 1346), which was besieged by land, to sustain and encourage the Crusaders, but shortly afterwards he died, worn out by apostolic toil and penance.

He wrote various spiritual letters and treatises, among which should be noted: De Spiritu Sancto; In psalterio decachordo; De humilitate (fragment); De profectu spirituali; De remediis contra tentationes spirituales, published together with various letters by the Clementi.

BIBL.: G. Clementi, Il b. V. da B., Roma 1904 (in append. gli scritti e la leggenda di un anon. contemporaneo); E. Hocedez, La légende latine du b. V. d. B., in An. Boll., 25 (1906), pp. 298-303; A. Sorbelli, La «legenda» del b. V. da B., Bologna 1925.