Valroger, HYACINTHE DE, French Oratorian, b. at Caen, January 6, 1814; d. October 10, 1876. He first studied medicine, and was later ordained priest (1837), and made director of the lesser seminary of Bayeux. In 1847 he became titular canon of the cathedral of Bayeux. In 1852 he joined Pere Gratry in the work of restoring the French Oratory, where he became professor of theology, master of novices, and assistant general. He was a man of great learning, but being equally modest, always hesitated to publish his works lest they should not be opportune or sufficiently exact. Besides many articles in Catholic reviews he published: “Etudes critiques sur le rationalisme contemporain” (Paris, 1846); “Essai sur la credibilite de l’histoire evangelique en reponse au Dr. Strauss” (Paris, 1847); “Du christianisme et du paganisme dans l’enseignement” (Paris, 1852); “Introduction historique et critique aux livres du Nouveau Testament” (Paris, 1861); “L’age du monde et de l’homme d’apres la Bible et l’eglise” (Paris, 1869); “La genese des especes, etudes philosophiques et religieuses” (Paris, 1873); “Pensees philosophiques et religieuses du Comte de Maistre” (Paris, 1879).
A.M. P. INGOLD