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frica became a Roman province, from which the indals were expelled. GeHmer was honourably eated and received large estates in Galicia. He IS also offered the rank of a patrician but had to fuse it because he was not willing to change his rian faith.

Papencordt, Gesch. der vandalischen Herrschaft in Afrika eriin, 1S37): Dahn, Die K/inige der Germanen, I (Munich, 61), 140-260; Hodqkin, Italy and her Invaders, II (London, SO): Schmidt, Gesch. der Vandalen (Leipzig, 1901); Schwarze, itersuchungen ilber die dussere Entvnckelung der afrikanischen Tche (Gottingen, 1892); Gorres. Kirche u. Stoat im Vandnt- ^eich in Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaft, X eipzig, 1893), 14-70; Martrove, L Occident A V6poque byzan- e (Paris, 1904); Idem, Genseric (Paris, 1907).

Klemens Lofpler. Van den Broek, Theodore J., priest and mission- y, b. at .\nistpnl;im, Holland, 5 Nov., 17S3; d. Little Chute, Wisconsin, .5 Nov., 1S51. He made


in the severest weather. He made arduous and dan- gerous journeys of two hundred miles, to minister to his Menominee and Winnebago Indians.

He had no income outside of his own resources; he built his first church himself, with the aid of his Indians. He was both priest and physician to the Indians at Buttes des Morts, Fort Winnebago, Fond du Lac, Prairie du Chien, Lake Poygan, Calumet, and even the Indian village on the Milwaukee River. He civihzed the Indians, worked with them, showed them the use of tools, how to cultivate the land, and with their help he built a chinxh seventy feet long, which he dedicated to !St. John Nepomucene. Be- tween 1836 and 1844 he converted and baptized over eight hundred Indians. In 1847, having obtained a priest to temporarily replace him, he sailed for Holland, arriving at Amstenhim, 13 August. 1847.


DOWN FROM THE CROSS. AND ChRIST'b APPEARANCE TO Hi!

Rogier Van der Weyden, Royal Gallery, Berlin


3 studies in Holland, was ordained in Germany in 08, and was received into the Dominican Order 1817. In 1819 he was appointed to Alkmaar, lere he pubhshed "Sermons for all Sundays and 3lidaj-s". On 1.5 Aug., 1832, with seven other issionaries, he arrived in Baltimore, and thence went Cincinnati. The missionaries were sent to different ices, and Father Van den Broek eventually went the convent of St. Rose in Kentucky. After a short ly .at St. Rose he was removed to Somerset, Ohio.

aring of the sad condition of the Indians in Michigan

ow Wisconsin), he obtained permission from Bishop ircell of Cincinnati to go to them, and arrived at ■een Bay, 4 July, 1834. He found there only ten itholic famihes, but laboured zealously among the lites and Indians. He completed the church and iest's house begun by Father Mazzuchelli, and de- ted him.self to the Indians during an epidemic of olera, aided by two self-sacrificing religious, Sisters ara and Theresa Bourdalou. In 1836,attherequest the Indians of Little Chute, he took up his residence th them. He taught his Indian neophytes the jhabet, and they could soon read Bishop Baraga's ayer-books and catechisms. The following year built a log church thirty by twenty-two feet and 1839 he built an addition thereto of twenty feet. I the mission at Green Bay was for some time thout a resident priest. Father Van den Broek ■quently said Ma,ss onSimdays at each place, walk- » the intervening distance of twenty-two miles even


In 1848 he returned with three shiploads of Dutch immigrants, whose descendants now form the popu- lation of north-eastern Wisconsin, and are dis- tinguished by their zealous faith, industry, thrift, and good order. The influence of their missionary work has extended info Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Ne- braska, Dakota, Oregon, and other states.

J. H. M. WiGMAN.

Van der Sandt (Sandaus), Maximilian, b. at Amsterdam, 17 April, 1.578; d. at Cologne, 21 June, 16.56. He entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus, 21 Nov., 1.597; taught philosophy at W'urzburg, and Sacred Scripture at NIainz. He became superior of the episcopal seminary at Wurzburg. He wrote many works on philosophy and theology, among others a notable controversial reply to the Batavian Calvinist LauTence in defence of the moral teaching of the Jesuits, "Castigalio conscientia" .Jesuitical cauteriata ... a Jacobo Laurent io", Wurzburg, 1617. It was said of him that he left a book for every one of the seventy-eight years of his life, several devo- tional treatises on the Blessed Virgin, and many ascet- ical and mystical treati.ses.

SOMMERVOOKI.. liibUothhque de la Compagnte de J^sus, XII (Paris, 1891-,); Poilain, Des GrAces d'oraison (Oth cd., Paris); The Graces of Interior Prayer, tr. Smith (London, 1911).

Gertrude Dana Steele. Van der Slooten, Johann. See Slotanus, John. Van der Weyden, Rohier, painter, b. at Tournai, 1399 or 1400; d. at Brussels, 14(54. His original name