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Marcus van der Meulen is director of the Ecclesiastical Heritage Centre in Brussels, Belgium. He is a member of Future for Religious Heritage, the European network for historical houses of worship.

John Varriano is Emmeritus Professor of Art History at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA.

Rev. Timothy V. Vaverek, S.T.D. is a board member of the Society for Catholic Liturgy and pastor of St. Joseph's church in Waco, Texas.

Lucas Viar is an architect specializing in sacred art and architecture and cultural heritage. He currently heads Granda Liturgical Art’s design department in Madrid, Spain.

Riccardo S. Vicenzino is an architect in New York City.

Anthony Visco is the director of the Atelier for the Sacred Arts where he designs and produces works for the liturgical environment. He also teaches courses in sacred art both in Philadelphia and Florence, Italy.

Dietrich von Hildebrand was born in 1889 in Florence, the son of Adolf von Hildebrand, an eminent German sculptor of the late nineteenth century. He grew up immersed in the art and beauty of Florence. He studied philosophy with Edmund Husserl and became an important figure in the world of early phenomenology. Given his upbringing in Florence and his training in phenomenology, he was predestined to do original work in aesthetics. Though Dietrich von Hildebrand is mainly known in the Catholic world for his religious writings, such as Transformation in Christ, and for his philosophical writings, such as Ethics, he has yet to be discovered as the important aesthetician that he is.

John G. Waite is the Senior Principal of John G. Waite Associates, Architects PLLC.

Rev. Noah Waldman is pastor of Saint Martin of Tours in Saint Louis, Missouri, and studied architecture at the University of Notre Dame.

Jordan Wales is Assistant Professor of Theology at Hillsdale College. He earned his PhD in historical theology from the University of Notre Dame.

Dr. Michael Ward is a fellow of Blackfriars Hall in Oxford and a professor of apologetics at Houston Baptist University. He is the author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis.

David Watkin is an Emeritus Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Professor Emeritus of History of Architecture in the Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge. He is author of over thirty books including A History of Western Architecture and Morality and Architecture.

James R. Wehn is Van Vleck Curator of Works on Paper at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Brian Welter is an author, teacher, and translator who has translated works from Spanish and French into English, including Pastoral Letters by Ezequiel Moreno Diaz (Arouca Press, 2022).

Carroll William Westfall is the Frank Montana Professor at the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture. He has written extensively on the history of the city with particular attention to the reciprocity between the political life and the urban and architectural elements that serve the needs of citizens.

The Reverend James Wetzstein serves as University Pastor at Valparaiso University, an independent Lutheran university in Valparaiso, Indiana. Through his active liturgical consulting practice, Wetzstein guides congregations to reflect on their theology of worship and its design implications in preparation for renovation or new construction. Among his recent consultations is the Chapel at the Old Latin School in Wittenberg, Germany.

W. Bradford Wilcox is a fellow at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey and assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. He lived with his family in Harlem last year.

Rev. C.R. Wiley is senior pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Manchester in Manchester, Connecticut. David Stocker is an architect and founding principal at Stocker Hoesterey Montenegro in Dallas, Texas.

James Matthew Wilson is the Cullen Foundation Chair in English Literature and the founding director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Saint Thomas. His most recent collection of poems is Saint Thomas and the Forbidden Birds (Word on Fire, 2024). The Strangeness of the Good (2020), won the poetry book of the year award from the Catholic Media Awards.

Rev. Robert Woodbury has served as chaplain at St. John's on the Lake, Milwaukee, WI.

His Eminence Donald Cardinal Wuerl is Archbishop of Washington. His serves on numerous national and international bodies and is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Michael Wurtz, C.S.C. is a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross and a doctoral candidate in Sacred Liturgy at the Pontifical Athaneum Sant’Anselmo, Rome.

Christopher Zehnder is a journalist and the Editor of the L.A. Catholic Mission.

Simone Zurawski, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art & Architecture, DePaul University, and a member of the Board of the Vincentian Studies Institute of America. This article is partly based on her forthcoming book, The Iconographie of the “Heroic” Saint Vincent de Paul & The Foundings: Origins and Exceptionality in the Salons of the Bourbon Restoration, 1817 to 1824, which will be published as an e-Book, with open access, by the Vincentian Studies Institute of America. You are welcome to contact her at: [email protected]. For more on the reliquary casket of Saint Vincent de Paul, see her article in Issue 30 of Sacred Architecture.