3 entries from the /names/ index. Names with their own individual page link out.
Meaning: Latin "truth" (veritas).
Figure: The Christian virtue of truth; the divine attribute.
Verity (Latin "truth," veritas) is a virtue name in use particularly in English-speaking Protestant and Anglican families. The name takes its meaning from the Christian virtue of truth and the divine attribute.
Meaning: Latin "conquering" (from vincens).
Figure: Saint Vincent de Paul; founder of the Vincentians (1581-1660).
Saint Vincent de Paul is the seventeenth-century French priest who founded the Congregation of the Mission (the Vincentians) and, with Louise de Marillac, the Daughters of Charity. His work shaped the Catholic Church's organized service to the poor for four centuries. The Catholic calendar commemorates him on September 27. The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, founded by lay people in 1833 in honor of his charism, continues today as a major Catholic lay organization.
Meaning: Slavic "ruler of peace" or possibly "great in his power."
Figure: Saint Vladimir of Kiev; tenth-century Grand Prince of Kievan Rus (c. 958-1015).
Saint Vladimir of Kiev is the tenth-century Grand Prince of Kievan Rus whose conversion to Christianity in 988 and subsequent baptism of his people brought the Eastern Slavs into the Christian Church. Honored in Orthodox tradition with the title "Equal-to-the-Apostles," his feast is July 15.