Veronius (Francois Veron)

a French Jesuit, was born about 1575, in Paris. At the age of twenty he joined the Jesuits, received holy orders, and labored as a missionary among the Protestants of France. In 1622 he received permission to preach and discuss in the streets and in market-places, aspradicateur du Roi pour les. controverses, while the French clergy gave him the jurisdiction and an annual pension. He died as pastor in Charenton, Dec. 6,1649. He is said to have been well qualified for missionary work, but, on the whole, he was very moderate. At the colloquy at Cadom, in 1628, he discussed with Bochart and published the acts thereof. Bochart also published the same (Saumur, 1630) because Voron had falsified them. He wrote, Methodes de Traiter des Controverses de Religion (Paris, 1638, 2 vols.): — Regle de la Foi Catholique (ibid. 1645; Latin in Migne, Cursus Theologicus, 1, 1035 sq.): Baillon des Jansenistes, against the Jansenists: — he also published a revised edition of the Louvain French Bible (1647). See Schrockh, Kirchengeschichte seit der Reformation, 4:251; Biographie Universelle, s.v.; Henke, Calixtus und seine Zeit, II, 1, 157 sq.; Theolog. Universal- Lexikon, s.v. (B. P.)