Index. 425 Variation in Biblical interpretation, 87. Vatican Council assembled from all nations, 332; Ecumenical, 34; all countries represented, 34; all systems represented, 34. Veneration of images, 196. Vestments — their meaning, 335; their colors symbolical, 337. Vicar of Christ is the Pope, 129. Victim in the Mass is Jesus Christ, 317. Victor Emmanuel, the modern Achab, 144. Virgins, Consecrated — Apostolate of Sisterhoods, 23. Virgins especially honored by Christ, 400. Virginity, Perpetual — of Mary, combated by Protestants, 169, et seq. Voltaire bears testimony to the good use of Church temporalities, 138. Vulgate — edited by St. Jerome, 91. Warfare on Church — foreign and domestic, 5 1 . Washington and St. Peter compared, 108. Washington's Address to the Catholics, 241. Wesley, John, founds Methodist Church, 44.