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• Gabala

  A titular see of Syria Prima

• Gabbatha

  The Aramaic appellation of a place in Jerusalem, designated also under the Greek name of Lithostrotos

• Gaboon

  Formerly called the Vicariate Apostolic of the Two Guineas

• Gabriel, Brothers of Saint

  Originally founded by St. Louis Grignon de Montfort in 1705, but it did not spread much till it was amalgamated with one founded in 1835 by Monsignor Deshayes. Vicar-General of Rennes

• Gabriel Possenti, Blessed

  Passionist student, d. 1862

• Gabriel Sionita

  A learned Maronite, famous for his share in the publication of the Parisian polyglot of the Bible; b. 1577, at Edden on the Lebanon; d. 1648

• Gabriel the Archangel, Saint

  One of the three archangels mentioned in the Bible

• Gad

  A proper name which designates in the Bible, (I), a patriarch; (II), a tribe of Israel; (III), a prophet; (IV), a pagan deity

• Gadara

  A titular see of Palaestina Prima; there were two sees of this name, one in Palaestina Prima, the other in Palaestina Secunda

• Gaddi, Agnolo, Giovanni, and Taddeo

  Florentine artists, Taddeo being the father of Agnolo and Giovanni

• Gaeta

  Archdiocese in the province of Caserta in Campania (Southern Italy)

• Gagarin, Ivan Sergejewitch

  Of the Russian family which traces its origin to the ancient rulers of Starodub; born at Moscow, 1 August, 1814; died at Paris, 19 July, 1882

• Gagliardi, Achille

  Ascetic writer and spiritual director; born at Padua, Italy, in 1537; died at Modena, 6 July, 1607

• Gahan, William

  A priest and author; born 5 June, 1732, in the parish of St. Nicholas, Dublin; died there, 6 December, 1804

• Gaillard, Claude Ferdinand

  French engraver and painter; b. at Paris, 7 Jan., 1834; d. there, 27 Jan., 1887

• Galantini, Ippolito, Blessed

  Founder of the Christian Congregation of Florence, d. 1619

• Galatians, Epistle to the

  Background on Galatia, purpose and date, a summary of its contents, its importance and a discussion of some difficulties

• Galatino, Pietro Colonna

  Friar Minor, philosopher, theologian, Orientalist; b. at Galatia (now Cajazzo) in Apulia; d. at Rome, soon after 1539

• Galerius, Valerius Maximianus

  Galerius, a native of Illyria, was made Caesar 1 March, 293, by Diocletian, whose daughter Valeria he married and who in turn adopted her husband

• Galien, Joseph

  Dominican, professor of philosophy and theology at the University of Avignon, meteorologist, physicist, and writer on aeronautics; b. 1699

• Galilee

  The native land of Jesus Christ, where He began His ministry and performed many of His works, and whence He drew His Apostles

• Galilei, Alessandro

  An eminent Florentine architect; born 1691; died 1737

• Galilei, Galileo

  Although in the popular mind Galileo is remembered chiefly as an astronomer, it was not in this character that he made really substantial contributions to human knowledge, but rather in the field of mechanics, and especially of dynamics, which science may be said to owe its existence to him

• Galitzin, Elizabeth

  Princess, religious of the Sacred Heart; born at St. Petersburg, 22 February, 1797; died in Louisiana, 8 December, 1843

• Galla

  Vicariate Apostolic embracing the territory of the Galla or Oromo tribes in Abyssinia

• Gall, Abbey of Saint

  In Switzerland, Canton St. Gall, 30 miles southeast of Constance; for many centuries one of the chief Benedictine abbeys in Europe; founded about 613, and named after Gallus, an Irishman, the disciple and companion of St. Columbanus in his exile from Luxeuil

• Gallait, Louis

  Flemish painter; born at Tournai, 10 May, 1810; died in Brussels, 20 November, 1887

• Galland, Antoine

  French Orientalist and numismatist, b. at Rollot, near Montdidier, in Picardy, 1646, d. at Paris, 1715

• Gallandi, Andrea

  Oratorian and patristic scholar, born at Venice, 7 December, 1709; died there 12 January, 1779, or 1780

• Galla, Saint

  A Roman widow of the sixth century; feast, 5 October

• Galle

  Diocese in Ceylon, created by Leo XIII 25 Aug., 1893

• Gallego, Juan Nicasio

  Priest and poet; born at Zamora, Spain, 14 December, 1777; died at Madrid, 9 January, 1853

• Galletti, Pietro Luigi

  Benedictine, historian and archaeologist; b. at Rome in 1724; d. there, 13 December, 1790

• Gallia Christiana

  A documentary catalogue or list, with brief historical notices, of all the dioceses and abbeys of France from the earliest times, also of their occupants

• Gallicanism

  This term is used to designate a certain group of religious opinions for some time peculiar to the Church of France, or Gallican Church, and the theological schools of that country

• Gallican Rite, The

  The rite which prevailed in Gaul until about the middle or end of the eighth century

• Gallicanus, Saints

  Three saints by this name commemorated on 25 June

• Gallienus, Publius Licinius Egnatius

  Roman emperor; b. about 218; d. at Milan, 4 March, 268

• Gallifet, Joseph de

  French Jesuit (1663-1749)

• Gallipoli

  Diocese in the province of Lecce (Southern Italy)

• Gallitzin, Adele Amalie

  Princess; b. at Berlin, 28 Aug., 1748; d. at Angelmodde, near Muenster, Westphalia, 17 April, 1806

• Gallitzin, Demetrius Augustine

  Prince, priest, and missionary (1770-1840)

• Galloway, Diocese of

  Situated in the southwest of Scotland

• Gall, Saint

  Late sixth- to early seventh-century Irish hermit

• Galluppi, Pasquale

  Philosopher, b. at Tropea, in Calabria, 2 April, 1770; d. at Naples, 13 Dec., 1846, where from 1831 he was a professor in the university

• Gallwey, Peter

  Famous London priest (1820-1906)

• Gal, Saint

  The sixteenth and twenty-third bishops of Clermont-Ferrand (Auvergne) were both named Gal, and both are saints. The first St. Gal was bishop from 527 to 551, and the second, from 640-650

• Galtelli-Nuoro

  Diocese in the province of Sassari (Sardinia), suffragan of Caglari

• Galura, Bernhard

  Prince-Bishop of Brixen; b. 21 August, 1764, at Herbolzheim, Bresigau; d. 17 May, 1856

• Galvani, Luigi

  Physician, b. at Bologna, Italy, 9 September, 1737; d. there, 4 December, 1798

• Galveston

  The Diocese of Galveston was established in 1847 and comprises that part of the State of Texas, U.S.A., between the Sabine River on the east, the Colorado River on the west, the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and the northern line of the counties of Lampasas, Coryell, McLennan, Limestone, Freestone, Anderson, Cherokee, Nacogdoches, and Shelby on the north

• Galway and Kilmacduagh

  Diocese in Ireland; an amalgamation of two distinct ancient sees

• Gamaliel

  Famous Pharisee and Rabbi

• Gamans, Jean

  Priest and missionary (1606-1684)

• Gama, Vasco da

  The discover of the sea route to East Indies; born at Sines, Province of Alemtejo, Portugal, about 1469; died at Cochin, India, 24 December, 1524

• Gambling

  The staking of money or other thing of value on the issue of a game of chance

• Gams, Pius Bonifacius

  Ecclesiastical historian (1816-1892)

• Gandolphy, Peter

  Jesuit preacher; b. in London, 26 July, 1779; d. at East Sheen, Surrey, 9 July, 1821

• Gangra

  A titular see in the province of Paphlagonia

• Gansfort, John Wessel

  A fifteenth-century Dutch theologian, born at Groeningen in 1420; died there on 4 Oct., 1489

• Gap

  Diocese; suffragan of Aix, includes the department of the Hautes-Alpes

• García, Anne

  Better known as Anne of St. Bartholomew. Biography of one of the first Discalced Carmelites. She died in 1626

• García Moreno, Gabriel

  Ecuadorean patriot and statesman; b. at Guayaquil, 24 December, 1821; assassinated at Quito, 6 August, 1875

• Garcia, Saint Gonsalo

  Biography of the Franciscan martyr born in Vasai

• Garcilasso de la Vega

  Spanish poet (1503-1536)

• Garcilasso de la Vega

  Historian of Peru (1539-1617)

• Gardellini, Aloisio

  Born at Rome, 4 Aug., 1759; died there, 8 Oct., 1829, famous chiefly for his collection of the decrees of the Congregation of Rites

• Garesché, Julius Peter

  Soldier; born 26 April, 1821, near Havana, Cuba; killed at the battle of Stone River, Tennessee, U.S.A., 31 December, 1862

• Garet, Jean

  Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, born at Havre about 1627; died at Jumieges, 24 September, 1694

• Gargara

  A titular see in the province of Asia, suffragan of Ephesus

• Garin, André

  An Oblate missionary and parish priest (1822-1895)

• Garland

  A wreath of flowers or evergreens formerly used in connection with baptismal, nuptial, and funeral rites, as well as in solemn processions

• Garland, John

  English poet and grammarian, who lived in the middle of the thirteenth century

• Garlick, Venerable Nicholas

  Short biography of the English priest and martyr. Also some information on fellow martyr Robert Ludlam. They died in 1588

• Garneau, François-Xavier

  French Canadian historian (1809-1866)

• Garnet, Henry

  English martyr, b. 1553-4; d. 1606

• Garnet, Saint Thomas

  Biography of the English priest and martyr, who died in 1608

• Garnier, Charles

  Short biography of the Jesuit missionary and martyr

• Garnier, Jean

  Church historian, patristic scholar, and moral theologian; b. at Paris, 11 Nov., 1612; d. at Bologna, 26 Nov., 1681

• Garnier, Julien

  Jesuit missionary, born at Connerai, France, 6 January, 1642; d. in Quebec, 1730

• Garrucci, Raffaele

  A historian of Christian art, b. at Naples, 22 January, 1812; d. at Rome, 5 May, 1885

• Garzon

  Suffragan diocese of Popayan in the Republic of Colombia

• Gaspare del Bufalo, Blessed

  Founder of the Missionaries of the Most Precious Blood, died 1837

• Gaspe, Philippe-Aubert de

  French Canadian writer, b. at Quebec, 30 Oct., 1786, of a family ennobled by Louis XIV in 1693, d. 29 Jan., 1871

• Gassendi, Pierre

  French philosopher and scientist. Article by J.G. Hagen covers Gassendi's life and work in some detail

• Gasser von Valhorn, Joseph

  Austrian sculptor, b. 22 Nov., 1816 at Praegraten, Tyrol; d. 28 Oct., 1900

• Gassner, Johann Joseph

  A celebrated exorcist; b. 22 Aug., 1727, at Braz, Vorarlberg, Austria; d. 4 April, 1779

• Gaston, William

  Jurist: b. at Newbern, North Carolina, U.S.A., 19 Sept., 1778: d. at Raleigh, North Carolina, 28 January 1844

• Gatianus, Saint

  First bishop of Tours, d. 301

• Gaubil, Antoine

  French Jesuit and missionary to China, b. at Gaillac (Aveyron), 14 July, 1689; d. at Peking, 24 July, 1759

• Gaudentius of Brescia

  A theologian of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchins; b. at Brescia in 1612; d. at Oriano, 25 March, 1672

• Gaudentius, Saint

  Successor of St. Philastrius as bishop of Brescia. Gaudentius died c. 410

• Gaudete Sunday

  The third Sunday of Advent, so called from the first word of the Introit at Mass (Gaudete, i.e. Rejoice)

• Gaudier, Antoine de

  A writer on asectic theology; b. at Chateau-Thierry, France, 7 January, 1572; d. at Paris, 14 April, 1622

• Gaudiosus

  Bishop of Tarazona (Turiasso), Spain; died about 540

• Gau, Franz Christian

  Architect and archaeologist, b. at Cologne, 15 June, 1790; d. at Paris, January, 1854

• Gaul, Christian

  The Church of Gaul first appeared in history in connexion with the persecution at Lyons under Marcus Aurelius (177)

• Gaultier, Aloisius-Edouard-Camille

  Priest and schoolmaster; b. at Asti, Piedmont, about 1745; d. at Paris, 18 Sept., 1818

• Gaume, Jean-Joseph

  French theologian and author, b. at Fuans (Franche-Comte) in 1802; d. in 1879

• Gavantus, Bartolommeo

  Liturgist, a member of the Barnabite Order; b. at Monza, 1569; d. at Milan, 14 August, 1638

• Gaza

  A titular see of Palaestina Prima, in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem

• Gazzaniga, Pietro Maria

  A theologian, b. at Bergamo, Italy, 3 March, 1722; d. at Vicenza, 11 Dec., 1799

• Gebhard (III) of Constance

  Bishop of that city and strenuous defender of papal rights against imperial encroachments during the Investitures conflict; b. about 1040; d. 12 November, 1110

• Gebhart, Emile

  French professor and writer, b. 19 July, 1839, at Nancy; d. 22 April, 1908

• Gedeon

  One of the Greater Judges of Israel. He belonged to the tribe of Manasses, and to the family of Abiezer

• Gédoyn, Nicolas

  A French translator and literary critic; b. at Orleans, 17 June, 1667; d. 10 August, 1744

• Gegenbauer, Josef Anton

  An accomplished German historical and portrait painter, b. 6 March, 1800, at Wangen, Wuertemberg; d. 31 January, 1876, at Rome

• Geiler von Kayserberg, Johann

  A celebrated German pulpit orator, b. at Schaffhausen, Switzerland, 16 March, 1445; d. at Strasburg, 10 March, 1510

• Geissel, Johannes von

  Cardinal, Archbishop of Cologne, b. 5 February, 1796, at Gimmeldingen, in the Palatinate; d. 8 September, 1864, at Cologne

• Gelasius II, Pope

  Reigned 1118-1119

• Gelasius I, Pope Saint

  An assessment of his pontificate. He died in 496

• Gelasius of Cyzicus

  Ecclesiastical writer, son of a priest of Cyzicus, and wrote in Bithynia, about 475, to prove against the Eutychians, that the Nicene Fathers did not teach Monophysitism

• Gemblours

  A suppressed Benedictine monastery on the river Orneau in Belgium, founded c. 945 by St. Guibert (Wibert) and dedicated to St. Peter the Apostle and the holy martyr Exuperius

• Genealogy (in the Bible)

  The word genealogy occurs only twice in the New Testament. In these passages commentators explain the word as referring to the Gentile theogonies, or to the Essene generation of angels, or to the emanation of spirits and aeons as conceived by the Gnostics, or to the genealogies of Jesus Christ, or finally to the genealogies of the Old Testament construed into a source of an occult doctrine

• Génebrard, Gilbert

  Benedictine exegete and Orientalist, b. 12 December, 1535, at Riom, in the department of Puy-de-Dome; d. 16 Feb., 1597

• General Chapter

  The daily assembling of a community for purposes of discipline and administration of monastic affairs has always included the reading of a chapter of the rule, and thus the assembly itself came to be called the chapter and the place of meeting the chapter-house

• General Judgment

  To it the prophets of the Old Testament refer when they speak of the 'Day of the Lord' (Joel 3:4; Ezekiel 13:5; Isaiah 2:12), in which the nations will be summoned to judgment. In the New Testament the second Parusia, or coming of Christ as Judge of the world, is an oft-repeated doctrine

• Generation

  Definitions include: a definite period of time, with a special reference to the average length of man's life; an indefinite period of time, of time past; the men who lived in the same period of time who were contemporaries; a race or class of men; and a dwelling place or habitation

• Genesareth

  This is the name given to the Lake of Tiberias in Luke 5:1

• Genesius

  Five people with this name including: Genesius of Rome; Genesius of Arles; Genesius, Bishop of Clermont; Genesius Count of Clermont; and Genesius of Lyons

• Genevieve, Saint

  Patroness of Paris, d. 512

• Genezareth, Land of

  By this name is designated in Mark, vi, 53, a district of Palestine bordering on the Sea of Galilee, and which in the parallel passage of Matthew (xiv, 34) is called 'the country of Genesar'

• Genga, Girolamo

  A painter, born at Urbino in 1476; died at the same place, 1551

• Génicot, Edward

  Moral theologian, b. at Antwerp, Belgium, 18 June, 1856; d. at Louvain, 21 February, 1900

• Gennadius II

  His original name was George Scholarius. Born about 1400, was first a teacher of philosophy and then judge in the civil courts under the Emperor John VIII

• Gennadius I, Saint

  Patriarch of Constantinople, d. 471

• Gennadius of Marseilles

  A priest whose chief title to fame is his continuation of St. Jerome's catalogue 'De Viris illustribus'

• Gennings, Edmund and John

  The first, a martyr for the Catholic Faith, and the second, the restorer of the English province of Franciscan friars, were brothers and converts to the Church

• Genoa

  Archdiocese in Liguria, Northern Italy

• Gentile da Fabriano

  Italian painter; b. probably about 1378 in the District of the Marches; d. probably 1427

• Gentiles

  In the English versions of both Testaments it collectively designates the nations distinct from the Jewish people

• Gentili, Aloysius

  Proficient in poetry, displayed considerable musical aptitude, had a taste for mechanical and electrical science and was devoted to the cultivation of modern languages, applying himself more particularly to the study of English (1801-1848)

• Genuflexion

  To genuflect, to bend the knee

• Geoffrey of Clairvaux

  A disciple of Bernard, was b. between the years 1115 and 1120, at Auxerre; d. some time after the year 1188

• Geoffrey of Dunstable

  Abbot of St. Alban's, d. at St. Alban's, 26 Feb., 1146

• Geoffrey of Monmouth

  Abbot of St. Alban's, d. at St. Alban's, 26 Feb., 1146

• Geoffrey of Vendôme

  A cardinal, b. in the second half of the eleventh century of a noble family, at Angers, France; d. there, 26 March, 1132

• Geography and the Church

  Explains the nature of this science and the course of its evolution

• Geography, Biblical

  With the exception of the didactic literature, there is no book in the Bible which, to a greater or less extent, does not contain mention of, or allusions to, the geography and topography of the Holy Land

• George Hamartolus

  A monk at Constantinople under Michael III (842-867) and the author of a chronicle of some importance

• George of Trebizond

  A Greek scholar of the early Italian Renaissance; b. in Crete (a Venetian possession from 1206-1669), 1395; d. in Rome, 1486

• George, Orders of Saint

  Knights of St. George appear at different historical periods and in different countries as mutually independent bodies having nothing in common but the veneration of St. George, the patron of knighthood

• George Pisides

  A Byzantine poet who lived in the first half of the seventh century

• George, Saint

  Long, scholarly article on St. George, martyr, patron saint of England

• George the Bearded

  Duke of Saxony, b. at Dresden, 27 August, 1471; d. in the same city, 17 April, 1539

• Georgetown University

  Founded immediately after the Revolutionary War, by the incorporated Catholic Clergy of Maryland, who selected from their Body Trustees, and invested them with full power to choose a President and appoint Professors. Since the year 1805, it has been under the direction of Society of Jesus'

• Georgia

  The largest of the original thirteen United States; bounded on the north by Tennessee and North Carolina, on the east by the Savannah River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Florida, and on the west by Florida and Alabama

• Georgius Syncellus

  The author of one of the more important medieval Byzantine chronicles, died after 810

• Gerace

  Diocese in the province of Reggio in Calabria (Southern Italy)

• Gerald, Saint

  English monk, Bishop of Mayo, d. 731. Brief biography

• Geraldton

  Diocese in Australia, established in 1898, suffragan of Adelaide

• Géramb, Baron Ferdinand de

  In religion, Brother Mary Joseph; Abbot and procurator-general of La Trappe, came of a noble and ancient family in Hungary; b. in Lyons, 14 Jan., 1772; d. at Rome, 15 March, 1848

• Gérando, Joseph-Marie de

  French statesman and writer, born at Lyons, 29 February, 1772; died at Paris, 10 November, 1842

• Gérard, Abbot of Brogne, Saint

  Soldier turned monk, d. 959

• Gerard, Archbishop of York

  Date of birth unknown; died at Southwell, 21 May, 1108

• Gerard, Bishop of Toul, Saint

  Biography of this tenth-century bishop

• Gerard, John

  Jesuit; born 4 October, 1564; died 27 July, 1637

• Gerard Majella, Saint

  Tailor, Redemptorist, called 'Father of the Poor,' d. 1755

• Gerard of Cremona

  A twelfth-century student of Arabic science and translator from Arabic into Latin; born at Cremona, in 1114; died in 1187

• Gerard, Richard

  Confessor; born about 1635; died 11 March, 1680

• Gerardus Odonis

  Also Geraldus Othonis, or Ottonis, a medieval theologian and Minister General of the Franciscan Order; born probably at Chateauroux, in the present department of Indre, France, date unknown; died at Catania, Sicily, 1348

• Gerard, Ven. Miles

  Priest martyred in 1590

• Gerasa

  A titular see in the province of Arabia and the Patriarchate of Antioch

• Gerberon, Gabriel

  A Benedictine of the Maurist Congregation (1628-1711)

• Gerbet, Olympe-Phillipe

  A French bishop and writer; b. at Poligny (Jura), 1798; d. at Perpignan (Pyrenees Orientales), 1864

• Gerbillon, Jean-François

  French missionary; born at Verdun, 4 June, 1654; died at Peking, China, 27 March, 1707

• Gerdil, Hyacinthe Sigismond

  Cardinal and theologian; b. at Samoëns in Savoy, 20 June, 1718; d. at Rome, 12 August 1802

• Gerhard of Zütphen

  Born at Zuetphen, 1367; died at Windesheim, 1398; a mystical writer and one of the first of the Brothers of the Common Life, founded by Gerhard Groote and Florentius Radewyn at Deventer, in the Netherlands

• Gerhoh of Reichersberg

  Provost of that place and Austin canon, one of the most distinguished theologians of Germany in the twelfth century, b. at Polling, Bavaria, 1093; d. at Reichersberg, 27 June, 1169

• Germain, Saint, Bishop of Auxerre

  A married lawyer, rather worldly, became Bishop of Auxerre, d. 448 or 450. Biography

• Germain, Saint, Bishop of Paris

  Monk, Bishop of Paris, d. 576

• German Gardiner, Blessed

  Layman, the last martyr under Henry VIII. Executed at Tyburn on 7 March, 1544, for refusing to grant that the King was the head of the English and Irish Church

• Germanicia

  A titular see in the province of Euphratensis and the patriarchate of Antioch; incorrectly called Germaniciana and located in Byzacene, Africa

• Germanicopolis

  A titular see in the province of Isauria, suffragan of Seleucia

• German Literature

  History starting with the pre-Christian period to 800 A.D

• Germans in the United States

  Includes all German-speaking people, whether originally from Germany proper, Austria, Switzerland, or Luxemburg

• Germanus I, Saint

  Patriarch of Constantinople, defender of the veneration of ikons, d. 733 or 740

• Germany

  History divided by time periods, beginning with before 1556

• Germany, Vicariate Apostolic of Northern

  Its jurisdiction covers the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Meeklenburg-Strelitz, the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe, the free Hanse towns, Hamburg, Luebeck, and Bremen, the Principality of Luebeck (capital Eutin), belonging to the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, and the Island of Helgoland

• Germia

  A titular see of Galatia Secunda, a suffragan of Pessinus; mentioned by Hierocles in the sixth century

• Gerona

  The Diocese of Geronia in Catalonia, Spain, suffragan of Tarragona, is bounded on the north by the Pyrenees, on the south and east by the Mediterranean, and on the west by the dioceses of Barcelona and Vich

• Gerrha

  A titular see in the province of Augustamnica Prima, suffragan of Pelusium in the Patriarchate of Alexandria

• Gerson, Jean de Charlier de

  Biographical article. Examines his view of conciliarism, and considers his mystical theology

• Gertrude of Aldenberg, Blessed

  Longtime abbess of a Premonstratensian convent near Wetzlar. She died in 1297

• Gertrude of Hackeborn

  Cistercian Abbess of Helfta, near Eisleben; born near Halberstadt in 1232; died towards the end of 1292

• Gertrude of Nivelles, Saint

  Benedictine abbess of a double monastery, d. 659

• Gertrude the Great, Saint

  Benedictine, mystic, author, d. 1301 or 1302

• Gertrude van der Oosten, Venerable

  Beguine, had the stigmata and the gift of prophecy, died on Epiphany, 1358

• Gervaise, Dom François Armand

  Discalced Carmelite, b. at Paris, 1660; d. at Reclus, France, 1761

• Gervase, George

  Account of the dramatic life of this Benedictine priest and martyr, who died in 1608

• Gervase of Canterbury

  English chronicler, b. about 1141; d. in, or soon after, 1210

• Gervase of Tilbury

  Medieval writer, b. probably at Tilbury, in the County of Essex, England, about 1150; d. at Arlington, about 1220

• Gervasius and Protasius, Saints

  Martyred in Milan, probably in the second century

• Géry, Saint

  Bishop of Cambrai-Arras, d. between 623 and 626

• Gesellenvereine

  German Catholic societies for the religious, moral, and professional improvement of young men

• Gesta Dei per Francos

  Title adopted by Guibert de Nogent (died about 1124) for his history of the First Crusade

• Gesta Romanorum

  A medieval collection of anecdotes, to which moral reflections are attached

• Gethsemane

  The place in which Jesus Christ suffered the Agony and was taken prisoner by the Jews

• Gethsemane, Abbey of Our Lady of

  An abbey of the Order of Reformed Cistercians, commonly called Trappists, established in 1848 in Nelson Co., Kentucky, in the Diocese of Louisville, being the first abbey on American soil

• Gezireh

  Seat of two Catholic residential sees, one Chaldean, the other Syrian

• Gfrörer, August Friedrich

  German historian; b. at Calw, Wuertemberg, 5 March, 1803; d. at Karlsbad, 6 July, 1861

• Ghardaia

  Prefecture Apostolic in the French Sahara, separated in 1901 from the Vicariate Apostolic of Sahara and the Soudan

• Ghent

  Comprises the whole territory of East Flanders, one of the nine provinces of Belgium

• Ghibellines and Guelphs

  Names adopted by the two factions that kept Italy divided and devastated by civil war during the greater part of the later Middle Ages

• Ghiberti, Lorenzo di Cione

  Sculptor; b. at Florence about 1381; d. there, December, 1455

• Ghirlandajo

  Florentine painter; b. 1449; d. 11 Jan., 1494

• Ghislain, Saint

  Hermit in Belgium, confessor, died c. 680

• Ghost Dance

  The principal ceremonial rite of an Indian religion which originated about 1887 with Wovoka, alias jack Wilson, an Indian of the Piute tribe in Nevada

• Giannone, Pietro

  Italian historian, born 7 May, 1676, at Ischitella in the province of Capinata, Naples; died at Turin, 27 March, 1748

• Gibail and Batrun

  A Maronite residential see

• Gibault, Pierre

  Missionary, b. at Montreal, Canada, 1737; d. at New Madrid, about 1804

• Gibbons, John

  Jesuit theologian and controversialist; b. 1544, at or near Wells, Somersetshire; died 16 Aug. or 3 Dec., 1589

• Gibbons, Richard

  Brother of Father John Gibbons, born at Winchester, 1550 or 1549; died at Douai, 23 June, 1632

• Giberti, Gian Matteo

  Cardinal, and Bishop of Verona, the natural son of Francesco Giberti, a Genoese naval captain, b. at Palermo in 1495; d. at Verona, 30 Dec., 1543

• Giberti, Jean-Pierre

  Canonist; b. at Aix, Provence, in 1660; d. at Paris in 1736

• Gibraltar

  A rugged promontory in the province of Andalusia, Spain, about 6 miles in circumference. Its almost perpendicular walls rise to a height of 1396 feet

• Giffard, Bonaventure

  Bishop, born at Wolverhampton, England, 1642; died at Hammersmith, Middlesex, 12 March, 1734

• Giffard, Godfrey

  Bishop of Worcester, b. about 1235; d. 26 Jan., 1301

• Giffard, William

  Second Norman Bishop of Winchester from 1100 to 1129

• Gifford, William

  Archbishop of Reims; b. in Hampshire, 1554; d. at Reims, 11 April, 1629

• Gift of Miracles

  The gift of miracles is one of those mentioned by St. Paul in his First Epistle to the Corinthians (xii, 9, 10), among the extraordinary graces of the Holy Ghost

• Gift, Supernatural

  Something conferred on nature that is above all the powers (vires) of created nature

• Gilbert de la Porrée

  Bishop of Poitiers, philosopher, theologian and general scholar; b. at Poitiers in 1076; d. in 1154

• Gilbertines, Order of

  Founded by St. Gilbert, about the year 1130, at Sempringham, Gilbert's native place, where he was then parish priest

• Gilbert Islands

  Vicariate apostolic; comprises the group of that name, besides the islands of Ellice and Panapa

• Gilbert, Nicolas-Joseph-Laurent

  Poet, b. at Fontenoy-le-Chateau, 1751; d. at Paris, 12 November, 1780

• Gilbert of Sempringham, Saint

  Short biography of the founder of the Gilbertines, who died in 1189

• Gilbert, Sir John Thomas

  Irish archivist and historian, b. in Dublin, 23 January, 1829; d. there, 23 May, 1898

• Gildas, Saint

  Biographical entry for St. Gildas the Wise, also called 'Badonicus,' born to a British family in Scotland, educated in Wales, monk, priest, died in 570

• Gil de Albornoz, Alvarez Carillo

  A renowned cardinal, general, and statesman; b. about 1310 at Cuenca in New Castile; d. 23 Aug., 1367

• Giles, Saint

  Also known as Aegidius. Hermit and then abbot in late seventh-century Gaul

• Gillespie, Eliza Maria

  In religion Mother Mary of St. Angela. Born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, 21 February, 1824; died at St. Mary's convent, Notre Dame, Indiana, 4 March, 1887

• Gillespie, Neal Henry

  Brother of the foregoing; b. in Washington county, Pa., 19 January 1831; d. at St. Mary's, Notre Dame, Indiana, 12 November, 1874

• Gillis, James

  Scottish bishop; b. at Montreal, Canada, 7 April, 1802; d. at Edinburgh, 24 February 1864

• Gilmore, Patrick Sarsfield

  A musician, born at Ballygar Galway, Ireland, 25 Dec., 1829; died at St. Louis, 24 Sept., 1892

• Gil of Santarem, Blessed

  Portuguese Dominican, d. 1265

• Gindarus

  A titular see of Syria Prima, in the Patriarchate of Antioch

• Ginoulhiac, Jacques-Marie-Achille

  A French bishop; b. at Montpellier (department of Herault) 3 Dec., 1806; d. there 17 Nov., 1875

• Gioberti, Vincenzo

  An Italian statesman and philosopher; b. at Turin, 5 April, 1801; d. at Paris, 26 October, 1852

• Giocondo, Fra Giovanni

  An Italian architect, antiquary, archaeologist, and classical scholar, b. in Verona, c. 1445; d. in Venice (?), c. 1525

• Giordani, Tommasso

  A composer, b. at Naples in 1738; d. at Dublin, Ireland, February 1806

• Giordano, Luca

  Neapolitan painter; b. at Naples, 1632; d. in the same place, 12 Jan., 1705

• Giorgione

  Italian painter, b. at Castelfranco in or before 1477; d. in Venice in October or November, 1510

• Giotto di Bondone

  A Florentine painter, and founder of the Italian school of painting, b. most probably, in the village of Vespignano near Florence; d. at Milan, 8 Jan., 1337

• Giovanelli, Ruggiero

  Composer, b. at Velletri, near Rome, in 1560; d. at Rome, 7 January, 1625

• Giraldi, Giovanni Battista

  Italian dramatist and novelist; b. at Ferrara, Italy, 1504; d. there, 1573

• Giraldi, Ubaldo

  An Italian canonist; b. in 1692; d. in 1775

• Giraldus Cambrensis

  Biographical article on the medieval ecclesiastic and writer

• Girard, Jean-Baptiste

  Known as Pere Girard, a Swiss pedagogue, b. at Fribourg, 17 December, 1765; d. there, 6 March, 1850

• Girardon, François

  A noted sculptor of the reign of Louis XIV, b. at Troyes, France, 1630; d. at Paris, 1715

• Giraud de Borneil

  A Provencal troubadour, b. about the middle of the twelfth century, at Excideuil in the Viscounty of Limoges

• Girba

  A titular see in the province of African Tripoli

• Girgenti

  The capital of a province in Sicily

• Gisbert, Blaise

  French rhetorician and critic; born at Cahors, 21 February, 1657; died at Montpellier, 21 February, 1731

• Giuliani, Veronica

  Short biographical article on this Capuchin, who died in 1727

• Giulio Romano

  A famous architect and painter, the best-known of Raphael's pupils, and the unique representative of the so-called 'Roman School'; b. at Rome in 1492; d. at Mantua in 1546

• Giuseppe Giusti

  A poet and patriot; b. 1809, at Monsumano near Pescia, Italy; d. 31 March, 1850

• Giuseppe Maria Tommasi, Blessed

  Cardinal, scholar, and author, died 1713

• Glaber, Raoul

  Benedictine chronicler; b. in Burgundy before 1000; d. at Cluny about 1050

• Glabrio, Manius Acilius

  Consul at Rome during A.D. 91, with Trajan

• Glagolitic

  An ancient alphabet of the Slavic languages, also called in Russian bukvitsa

• Glaire, Jean-Baptiste

  Priest, hebraist, and Biblical scholar; b. at Bordeaux, 1 April, 1798; d. at Issy, near Paris, 25 Feb., 1879

• Glanville, Ranulf de

  Chief Justiciar of England; b. at Stratford, Suffolk, England, date unknown; d. before Acre, Palestine, 1190

• Glarean, Henry

  Swiss humanist, poet, philosopher, geographer, mathematician, and musician, born at Mollis, near Glarus, Switzerland, in June, 1488, and died at Freiburg-im-Breisgau, 27 March, 1563

• Glasgow

  Archdiocese in the southwest of Scotland

• Glastonbury Abbey

  Benedictine monastery, Somersetshire, England, pre-eminently the centre of early Christian tradition in England

• Glebe

  Originally signified, in common law, any farm, estate, or parcel of land, and the word is so used in the Theodosian Code. But in ecclesiastical law it has become the technical term for land permanently assigned for the maintenance of the incumbent of a parish, and is the oldest form of parochial endowment

• Glendalough, School of

  Founded by St. Kevin

• Gloria in Excelsis Deo

  The great doxology (hymnus angelicus) in the Mass is a version of a very old Greek form'. It begins with the words sung by the angels at Christ's birth (Luke 2:14). To this verse others were added very early, forming a doxology

• Gloria, Laus et Honor

  A hymn composed by St. Theodulph of Orleans in 810

• Glory

  In the English version of the Bible the word Glory, one of the commonest in the Scripture, is used to translate several Hebrew terms in the Old Testament, and the Greek doxa in the New Testament. Sometimes the Catholic versions employ brightness, where others use glory

• Glosses, Glossaries, Glossarists

  To gloss is to interpret or explain a text by taking up its words one after another. A glossary is therefore a collection of words about which observations and notes have been gathered, and a glossarist is one who thus explains or illustrates given texts

• Glosses, Scriptural

  The word gloss designates not only marginal notes, but also words or remarks inserted for various reasons in the very text of the Scriptures

• Glossolalia

  A supernatural gift of the class gratiae gratis datae, designed to aid in the outer development of the primitive Church

• Gloves, Episcopal

  Liturgical gloves are a liturgical adornment reserved for bishops and cardinals

• Gluttony

  The excessive indulgence in food and drink

• Gnesen-Posen

  Archdiocese in the Kingdom of Prussia

• Gnosticism

  History of Gnosticism from its pre-Christian roots through its developed doctrines concerning cosmogony, the Sophia-myth, soteriology, and eschatology. Includes information on rites, schools, and literature

• Goa

  Archdiocese in India

• Goajira, Vicariate Apostolic of

  The most northern portion of South America is a peninsula running into the Caribbean Sea

• Goar, Jacques

  Dominican and hellenist (1601-1653)

• Goar, Saint

  Priest, hermit, d. 649

• Gobat, George

  Moral theologian; born at Charmoilles, in the Diocese of Basil, now in the Department of the Doubs, France, 1 July, 1600; died 23 March, 1679

• Gobban Saer

  Regarded in traditional lore as the greatest Irish architect of the seventh century, and popularly canonized as St. Gobban; b. at Turvey, near Malahide, Co. Dublin, about 560

• Gobelinus, Person

  Westphalian known as an historian and an ardent reformer of monastic life in his native land (1358-1421)

• God

  Links to five articles about the subject

• Godard, Saint

  Benedictine abbot, bishop of Hildesheim, d. 1038

• Godden, Thomas

  True name Tylden. Born at Addington, Kent, 1624; died in London, 1 Dec., 1688

• Godeau, Antoine

  Bishop, poet and exegete; b. at Dreux in the diocese of Chartres, 1605; d. at Vence, 21 April, 1672

• Godeberta, Saint

  Born in about 640, superior of a convent at Noyon

• Godelina, Saint

  Physically and psychologically abused by her husband Bertolf and mother-in-law, until finally she was murdered at Bertolf's orders in 1070

• Godet des Marais, Paul

  Bishop of Chartres, France; b. at Talcy, near Blois, 1647; d. at Chartres, 1709

• "God", Etymology of the Word

  Anglo-Saxon God; German Gott; akin to Persian khoda; Hindu khooda

• God, Existence of

  The arguments for God's existence are variously classified and entitled by different writers, but all agree in recognizing the distinction between a priori, or deductive, and a posteriori, or inductive reasoning in this connection

• Godfrey Goodman

  Anglican Bishop of Gloucester (1582-3-1656)

• Godfrey of Bouillon

  Duke of Lower Lorraine and first King of Jerusalem, son of Eustache II, Count of Boulogne, and of Ida, daughter of Godfrey the Bearded, Duke of Lower Lorraine; b. probably at Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1060; d. at Jerusalem, 18 July, 1100

• Godfrey of Fontaines

  A scholastic philosopher and theologian; born near Liege within the first half of the thirteenth century

• Godfrey of Viterbo

  German writer of the twelfth century

• Godinez

  Mystical theologian, born at Waterford, Ireland (1591-1644)

• God, Relation of the Universe to

  Sections include essential dependence of the universe on God, divine immanence and transcendence, and possibility of the supernatural

• Godric

  The name of two Abbots of Croyland

• God, Three Persons of

  The term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion, the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these three persons being truly distinct one from another

• Goetz, Marie Josephine

  Second superior-general of the Society of the Sacred Heart, daughter of Joseph Goetz of Strasburg and Marie Anne Wagner; b. 7 March, 1817; d. 4 January, 1874

• Goffe, Stephen

  Oratorian; b. 1605; d. at Paris, Christmas Day, 1681

• Goffine, Leonard

  Priest and writer. Born at Cologne, or according to some, at Broich, 6 December, 1648; died 11 August, 1719

• Gog and Magog

  Names, respectively, of a king and of his supposed kingdom, mentioned several times in chapters 38 and 39 of the Book of Ezechiel, and once in the Apocalypse (20:7)

• Golden Calf

  An object of worship among the Hebrews, mention of which occurs principally in Ex., xxxii, where the story of the molten calf of Aaron is narrated, and in 1 Kings 12 (cf. 2 Chronicles 11), in connection with the policy of Jeroboam after the schism of the ten tribes

• Golden Rose

  A precious and sacred ornament made of pure gold by skilled artificers, which the popes have been accustomed for centuries to bless each year, and occasionally confer upon illustrious churches and sanctuaries as a token of special reverence and devotion, upon Catholic kings or queens, princes or princesses, renowned generals or other distinguished personages, upon governments or cities conspicuous for their Catholic spirit and loyalty to the Holy See, as a mark of esteem and paternal affection

• Goldoni, Carlo

  Brief biography of the Italian dramatist

• Goldwell, Thomas

  Bishop of St. Asaph, the last survivor of the ancient hierarchy of England; b. between 1501 and 1515; d. in Rome, 3 April, 1585

• Gómara, Francisco Lopez de

  Chaplain to Cortes. Born 1510. Wrote a severely flawed history of the Spanish conquest of the New World, though he himself had never been there

• Gomes De Amorim, Francisco

  Portuguese poet, dramatist, and novelist (1827-1891)

• Gondulphus

  The name of three saints, of whom one was Bishop of Tongres (Maestricht), the second Bishop of Metz, while the third is known as Gondulphus of Berry

• Gonet, Jean Baptiste

  Theologian, b. about 1616 at Béziers, in the province of Languedoc; d. there 24 Jan., 1681

• Gonnelieu, Jérôme de

  Theologian, ascetical writer, and preacher; born at Soissons, 8 Sept., 1640; died at Paris, 28 Feb., 1715

• Gonzaga, Ercole

  Cardinal; b. at Mantua, 23 November, 1505; d. 2 March, 1563

• Gonzaga, Scipione

  Cardinal; b. at Mantua, 11 November, 1542; d. at San Martino, 11 January, 1593

• González de Santalla, Thyrsus

  Theologian and thirteenth general of the Society of Jesus, b. at Arganda, Spain, 18 January, 1624; died at Rome, 27 October, 1705

• Gonzalez, Saint Peter

  Spanish Dominican, d. 1246. Patron saint of Spanish and Portuguese sailors

• González, Zeferino

  Dominican, cardinal, theologian, and philosopher (1831-1894)

• Gonzalo de Berceo

  Spanish poet, active between 1220 and 1242

• Good

  The moral good (bonum honestum) consists in the due ordering of free action or conduct according to the norm of reason, the highest faculty, to which it is to conform

• Good Faith

  A phrase employed to designate the mental and moral state of honest, even if objectively unfounded, conviction as to the truth or falsehood of a proposition or body of opinion, or as to the rectitude or depravity of a line of conduct

• Good Friday

  The Friday on which the Church keeps the anniversary of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ

• Good, Highest, The

  (1)Utilitarianism, when the highest good is identified with happiness; (2)Rational Deontologism, when the highest good is identified with virtue or duty; (3)Rational Eudaemonism, or tempered Deontologism, when both virtue and happiness are combined in the highest good

• Good Hope, Cape of (Eastern)

  Established in 1847, when the Vicariate of the Cape of Good Hope was divided into Eastern and Western

• Good Hope, Cape of (Western)

  The Western vicariate and the Central prefecture, although different in name, are virtually one

• Goodman, Ven. John

  Priest and martyr; born in the Diocese of Bangor, Wales, 1590; died 1642

• Good Samaritan, Sisters of the

  A congregation of Tertiaries Regular of St. Benedict, established 2 February, 1857, at Sydney, Australia

• Good Shepherd, Our Lady of Charity of the

  The aim of this institute is to provide a shelter for girls and women of dissolute habits, who wish to do penance for their iniquities and to lead a truly christian life

• Goossens, Pierre-Lambert

  Cardinal, Archbishop of Michlin (Belgium), b. at Perck, near Vilvorde, 18 July, 1827; d. at Michlin, 25 January, 1906

• Gordian

  There were three Roman emperors of this name, who reigned between A.D. 237-44, and all of whom met with violent deaths

• Gordon, Andrew

  Monk and physicist (1712-1751)

• Gordon Riots

  This agitation, so called from the head and spirit of the movement, Lord George Gordon, convulsed the metropolis of England from 2 June till 9 June, 1780

• Gordos

  A titular see in the province of Lydia, suffragan of Sardis

• Gorgonius, Saint

  Identifies six martyrs of this name. Article concentrates on an imperial official who suffered in the Diocletian persecution and whose feast is 9 September. His cult was strong in France

• Gorkum, The Martyrs of

  Their beatification took place on 14 Nov., 1675, and their canonization on 29 June, 1865

• Görres, Guido

  Historian, publicist, and poet; b. at Coblenz on 28 May, 1805; d. at Munich on 14 July, 1852

• Görres, Johann Joseph

  Writer and professor of physics (1776-1848)

• Gortyna

  A titular see, and in the Greek Church metropolitan see, of the Island of Crete

• Görz

  Capital of the Austrian crown-land Goerz and Gradiska

• Goscelin

  Benedictine biographical writer (d. 1099)

• Gospel and Gospels

  The word Gospel usually designates a written record of Christ's words and deeds

• Gospel in the Liturgy

  From the very earliest times the public reading of parts of the Bible was an important element in the Liturgy inherited from the service of the Synagogue

• Gospel of Mark

  The Second Gospel, like the other two Synoptics, deals chiefly with the Galilean ministry of Christ, and the events of the last week at Jerusalem

• Gossaert, Jan

  Flemish painter; b. about 1472; d. at Middelburg about 1533

• Goss, Alexander

  Bishop of Liverpool (1814-1872)

• Gosselin, Jean-Edmé-Auguste

  Ecclesiastical author; b. at Rouen, France, 28 Sept., 1787; d. at Paris, 27 Nov., 1858

• Gother, John

  Priest and controversialist; b. at Southampton, date unknown; d. at sea on a voyage to Lisbon, 2 October, 1704

• Gottfried von Strasburg

  Middle High German epic poet

• Gotti, Vincent Louis

  Cardinal and theologian (1664-1742)

• Gottschalk of Orbais

  A medieval theologian; b. about 800, d. after 866, probable 30 October, 868

• Gottschalk, Saint

  Wendish prince, considered a martyr, d. 1066

• Göttweig, Abbey of

  A Benedictine abbey situated on a hill of the same name, south of Krems, in Lower Austria

• Goulburn

  One of the six suffragan sees of the ecclesiastical province of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Gounod, Charles-François

  An article focusing especially on his religious compositions and the effect of his beliefs on his compositions

• Goupil, René

  Short biography of the Jesuit missionary, martyred in 1642

• Gousset, Thomas-Marie-Joseph

  French cardinal and theologian; b. at Montigny-les-Charlieu, a village of Franche-Comte, in 1792; d. at Reims in 1866

• Gower, John

  Poet; born between 1327-1330, probably in Kent; died October, 1408

• Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de

  Painter and etcher, b. in Fuendetodos, Aragon, Spain, 31 March, 1746; d. in Bordeaux, 16 April, 1828

• Goyaz, Diocese of

  Co-extensive with the state of the same name, one of the twenty states which, with the Federal District, comprise the Republic of Brazil

• Gozo, Diocese of

  Comprises the island of Gozo in the Mediterranean Sea and the islet of Comino

• Gozzi, Carlo

  Italian author, born at Venice, 1720; died 1806

• Gozzoli

  Painter; b. at Florence, 1420; d. at Pisa 1497

• Gozzolini, Saint Sylvester

  Founder of the Sylvestrines. Canon, hermit. Died 1267

• Grace

  Leads to four articles on the subject

• Grace at Meals

  One of the most ancient formulae of prayer at meals is found in a treatise of the fourth century, attributed without foundation to Saint Athanasius

• Grace, Controversies on

  Controversies that are concerned chiefly with the relation between grace and free will

• Grace, Supernatural

  Treatise on this fundamental building block of Christianity

• Grace, William Russell

  Philanthropist and merchant, born at Cork, Ireland, 10 May, 1832; died at New York, 21 March, 1904

• Gradual

  In English often called Grail, is the oldest and most important of the four chants that make up the choir's part of the Proper of the Mass

• Gradual Psalms

  Fifteen psalms, namely Psalms 119-133

• Gradwell, Robert

  Bishop; b. at Clifton-in-the-Fylde, Lancashire, 26 Jan., 1777; d. in London, 15 March, 1833

• Graffiti

  The term in common usage among archaeologists to designate a class of rude inscriptions scratched on the walls of ancient monuments, generally sepulchral, as distinguised from the formal inscriptions engraved on the tombs of the deceased

• Graham, Patrick

  First Archbishop of St. Andrews and Metropolitan of Scotland, date of birth uncertain; d. 1478

• Grail, The Holy

  The name of a legendary sacred vessel, variously identified with the chalice of the Eucharist or the dish of the Pascal lamb, and the theme of a famous medieval cycle of romance

• Gramont, Eugénie de

  Religious of the Society of the Sacred Heart; b. at Versailles, 17 September, 1788; d. at Paris, 19 November, 1846

• Gran

  Located in Hungary

• Granada

  Archdiocese in Spain, founded by St. Cecilius about the year 64, was made an archiepiscopal see by Alexander VI, 23 Jan., 1493

• Granada, University of

  The origin of this university is to be traced to the Arab school at Cordova, which, when the city was captured by St. Ferdinand in 1236, was removed to Granada and there continued

• Grancolas, Jean

  Doctor of the Sorbonne, theologian, liturgist; b. near Chateaudun, about 1660; d. at Paris, 1 August, 1732

• Granderath, Theodor

  Known for his monumental labours on the Vatican Council

• Grandidier, Philippe-André

  Priest and historian, b. at Strasburg, Alsace, 9 Nov., 1752; d. at the Abbey of Luntzel (Lucelles), Sundgau, 11 Oct., 1787

• Grandmont, Abbey and Order of

  Abbey and Order in the department of Hte-Vienne, France

• Grand Rapids

  Diocese created 12 May, 1882 out of the diocese of Detroit

• Grant, Thomas

  First Bishop of Southwark; b. at Ligny-les-Aires, Arras, France, 25 Nov., 1816; d. at Rome, 1 June, 1870

• Granvelle, Antoine Perrenot de

  Named Archbishop of Mechlin in 1559 and cardinal in 1561

• Grasse, François-Joseph-Paul

  Count and Marquess de Grasse-Tilly, lieutenant-general of the naval forces; b. near Toulon, 1723; d. at Paris, 11 January, 1788

• Grässel, Lorenz

  Coadjutor-elect of Baltimore; born at Ruemannsfelden, Bavaria, 18 August, 1753; died at Philadelphia, U.S.A., October, 1793

• Grassis, Paris de

  Master of ceremonies to Julius II and Leo X; b. at Bologna, about 1470; d. at Rome, 10 June, 1528

• Gras, Venerable Louise de Marillac Le

  Founder of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, d. 1660

• Gratian

  Details on this Roman Emperor who was the son of Valentinian I. He was born at Sirmium, 359 and died at Lyons, 383

• Gratian, Jerome

  Spiritual director of St. Teresa and first Provincial of the Discalced Carmelites; born at Valladolid, 6 June, 1545; died at Brussels, 21 September, 1614

• Gratian, Johannes

  The little that is known concerning the author of the 'Concordantia discordantium canonum', more generally called the 'Decretum Gratiani', is furnished by that work itself, its earliest copies, and its twelfth-century 'Summae' or abridgments

• Gratianopolis

  A titular see in Caesarea Mauretania, Africa

• Gratius, Ortwin

  Humanist; b. 1475 at Holtwick, near Coesfeld, Westphalia; d. at Cologne, 22 May, 1542

• Gratry, Auguste-Joseph-Alphonse

  French priest and writer; b. at Lille, 30 March, 1805; d. at Montreux, Switzerland, 7 February, 1872

• Gratz, Peter Aloys

  Schoolmaster and exegete, b. 17 Aug., 1769, at Mittelberg, Allgaeu, Bavaria; d. at Darmstadt, 1 Nov., 1849

• Gravier, Jacques

  Jesuit missionary; born 1651 at Moulins, where he studied classics and philosophy under the Jesuits; died in Louisiana in 1708

• Gravina and Montepeloso

  Gravina is a town in the Province of Bari (Southern Italy), since the ninth century an episcopal see, suffragan of Acerenza and Matera. In 1818 it was united aeque principaliter with Montepeloso, which dates back to the twelfth century (some say the fifteenth) and was suffragan of Potenza

• Gravina, Dominic

  Theologian; b. in Sicily, about 1573; d. in the Minerva, at Rome, 26 Aug., 1643

• Gravina, Giovanni Vincenzo

  Italian jurist and litterateur of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; b. at Rogliano, Calabria, 21 January, 1664; d. at Rome, 6 January, 1718

• Graz, University of

  Located in the capital of the Province of Steiermark, owes its establishment to the Counter-Reformation and the efforts of Archduke Karl von Steiermark, who, in 1584, requested Pope Gregory XIII to grant autonomous university privileges to the Jesuit college of Graz

• Great Falls

  Created by Pope Pius X, 18 May, 1904; comprises the following counties in the State of Montana: Carbon, Cascade, Chouteau, Custer, Dawson, Fergus, Park, Rosebud, Sweet Grass, Valley, and Yellowstone

• Greece

  History of the country and church

• Greek Catholics in America

  Includes the history and statistics

• Greek Church

  Details the history and various divisions of the church

• Greek Orthodox Church in America

  The name Orthodox Church is generally used to distinguish those of the Greek Rite who are not in communion with the Holy See

• Greek Rites

  People who speak of the Greek Rite generally mean that of Constantinople

• Green Bay

  Diocese established 3 March, 1868, from the territory of the Diocese of Milwaukee

• Green, Hugh

  An English priest who had converted to Catholicism. He was martyred in a brutal way in 1642

• Greenland

  An island stretching from within the Arctic Circle south to about 59 degrees N. latitude, being between 20 degrees and 75 degrees W. longitude

• Green, Thomas Louis

  Priest and controversialist; b. at Stourbridge, Worcestershire, 1799; d. at Newport, Shropshire, 27 Feb., 1883

• Gregory III, Pope Saint

  A Syrian, was elected the successor of Pope St. Gregory II by acclamation, d. 741

• Gregory II, Pope Saint

  Also known as Gregory Junior, or Gregory the Younger, d. 731

• Gregory I, Pope Saint

  Biographical article on this Doctor of the Church, d. 604

• Gregory IV, Pope

  Reigned 827-44

• Gregory IX

  Reigned 1227-1241

• Gregory of Heimburg

  Humanist and Statesman, b. at Wuerzburg in the beginning of the fifteenth century; d. at Tharandt near Dresden, August, 1472

• Gregory of Nazianzus, Saint

  Biographical article on this Doctor of the Church, known in the Christian East as St. Gregory the Theologian

• Gregory of Neocaesarea, Saint

  Also known as Gregory Thaumaturgus, converted to Christianity by Origen, became a bishop, d. between 270 and 275

• Gregory of Nyssa, Saint

  Bishop, one of the Cappadocian Fathers, d. after 385 or 386

• Gregory of Rimini, Saint

  Augustinian theologian, d. 1358

• Gregory of Tours, Saint

  Lengthy article about this bishop, historian, and theologian. He died in 593 or 594

• Gregory of Utrecht, Saint

  Missionary companion of St. Boniface, and later an abbot, d. 775 or 780

• Gregory of Valencia

  Professor of the University of Ingolstadt, b. at Medina, Spain); d. at Naples, 25 April, 1603

• Gregory the Illuminator

  Patron of Armenia. Husband and father, bishop, d. possibly in 337

• Gregory VI

  Eleventh-century antipope

• Gregory VIII

  Antipope placed upon the papal chair by Emperor Henry V, 8 March, 1118

• Gregory VIII, Pope

  Reigned 1187

• Gregory VII, Pope Saint

  Also known as Hildebrand: 'one of the greatest of the Roman pontiffs and one of the most remarkable men of all times.' He died in 1085. Biographical article

• Gregory VI, Pope

  Reigned 1045-46

• Gregory V, Pope

  Reigned 996-999

• Gregory X

  Biographical article on this thirteenth-century pope. Includes bibliography

• Gregory XI

  Reigned 1370-1378

• Gregory XII

  Reigned 1406-1415

• Gregory XIII, Pope

  Reigned 1572-1585

• Gregory XIV, Pope

  Reigned 1590-1591

• Gregory XVI, Pope

  Reigned 1831-1846

• Gregory XV, Pope

  Reigned 1621-1623

• Greifswald, University of

  The oldest university of Prussia, founded in 1456

• Greith, Karl Johann

  Bishop and church historian, b. at Rapperswyl, Switzerland, 25 May, 1897; d. at St. Gall, 17 May, 1882

• Gremiale

  A square or oblong cloth which the bishop should wear over his lap, when seated on the throne during the singing of the Kyrie, Gloria, and Credo by the choir, during the distribution of blessed candles, palms or ashes, and also during the anointments in connection with Holy orders

• Grenoble

  Comprises the Department of Isere and the Canton of Villeurbanne (Rhone)

• Gresemund, Dietrich

  German humanist; b. in 1477, at Speyer; d. 1512, at Mainz

• Greslon, Adrien

  French Jesuit missionary (1618-1697)

• Gresset, Jean Baptiste

  Born 29 August, 1709; died 16 June, 1777, at Amiens

• Gretser, Jacob

  A celebrated Jesuit writer; b. at Markdorf in the Diocese of Constance in 1562; d. at Ingolstadt in 1625

• Greuze, Jean-Baptiste

  French painter, b. at Tournus in Ardeche, 21 August, 1725; d. at Paris, 21 March, 1805

• Grey Nuns

  The Order of Sisters of Charity of the Hopital General of Montreal, commonly called Grey Nuns because of the colour of their attire, was founded in 1738

• Grey Nuns of the Cross

  A community founded in 1745 at Monteal by Madame d'Youville, known as the Grey Sisters, or Grey Nuns, from the colour of the costume

• Griffin, Gerald

  A novelist, dramatist, lyricist; b. 12 December, 1803, at Limerick, Ireland; d. at Cork, 12 June, 1840

• Griffin, Martin Ignatius Joseph

  Journalist, historian (1842-1911)

• Griffiths, Thomas

  Born in London, 2 June, 1791; died 19 August, 1847; the first and only Vicar Apostolic of the London District educated wholly in England

• Grillparzer, Franz

  An Austrian poet, b. at Vienna, 15 January, 1791, d. 21 January, 1872

• Grimaldi, Francesco Maria

  Italian physicist, b. at Bologna, 2 April, 1618; d. in the same city, 28 Dec., 1663

• Grimaldi, Giovanni Francesco

  An eclectic painter of the Bolognese school; b. at Bologna, 1606; d. at Rome, 1680

• Grimmelshausen, Johann Jacob Christoffel von

  German novelist of the seventeenth century

• Gröne, Valentin

  Catholic theologian (1817-1882)

• Groote, Gerard

  Founder of the 'Brethren of the Common Life', b. 1340 at Deventer, Gelderland; d. 20 Aug., 1384

• Gropper, John

  An eminent jurist and theologian, b. 24 Feb., 1503, at Soest, Westphalia; d. at Rome, 13 March, 1559

• Grosseteste, Robert

  Bishop of Lincoln and one of the most learned men of the Middle Ages; b. about 1175; d. 9 October, 1253

• Grosseto

  Suffragan diocese of Siena

• Grosswardein

  A diocese of the Latin Rite in Hungary, suffragan of Kalocsa-Bacs

• Grottaferrata, Abbey of

  A Basilian monastery near Rome

• Grueber, Johann

  German Jesuit missionary in China and noted explorer of the seventeenth century

• Grün, Anastasius

  Pseudonym for Anton Alexander (Maria), Count von Auersperg, a nineteenth-century Austrian poet

• Guadalajara

  Archdiocese in Mexico, separated from the Diocese of Michoacan by Paul III, 31 July, 1548

• Guadalupe, Shrine of

  Guadalupe is strictly the name of a picture, but was extended to the church containing the picture and to the town that grew up around

• Guadeloupe

  Diocese in the West Indies, comprises the islands of Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, Marie-Galante, La Desirade, and the French portions of St. Martin and St Bartholomew

• Guadix, Diocese of

  Diocese in Spain, comprises the greater part of the Province of Granada and a portion of the Province of Almeria

• Guaicuri Indians

  A group of small tribes, speaking dialectic forms of a common language, probably of distinct stock, formerly occupying part of Lower California

• Guaraní Indians

  A tribal group of South America, having the former home territory chiefly between the Uruguay and lower Paraguay Rivers, in what is now Paraguay and the Provinces of Corrientes and Entre Rios of Argentina

• Guarantees, Law of

  A law passed by the senate and chamber of the Italian parliament, 13 May, 1871, concerning the prerogatives of the Holy See, and the relations between State and Church in the Kingdom of Italy

• Guarda, Diocese of

  Province of Beira, Portugal

• Guardian Angels, Feast of

  This feast, like many others, was local before it was placed in the Roman calendar

• Guardianship, in Civil Jurisprudence

  A person intrusted by law with the interests of another whose youth, inexperience, mental weakness or feebleness of will, disqualifies him from acting for himself in the ordinary affairs of life, and who is known as the ward

• Guardi, Francesco

  Venetian painter (1712-1793)

• Guarini, Battista

  An Italian poet, b. at Ferrara, 1538, d. at Venice, 7 Oct., 1612

• Guarino da Verona

  A humanist, b. 1370, at Verona, Italy; d. 1460, at Ferrara

• Guastalla, Diocese of

  Situated in the province of Reggio Emilia (Central Italy) on the left bank of the Po at its junction with the Crostolo

• Guastallines

  Luigia Torelli, Countess of Guastalla (b. about 1500; d. 29 Oct., 1559 or 1569), widowed for the second time when she was twenty-five, resolved to devote her life to the service of God

• Guatemala, Santiago de

  Archdiocese conterminous with the Republic of Guatemala, in Central America

• Guayaquil

  The capital of the Ecuadorian province of Guayas

• Gubbio

  Diocese of Eugubinensis, in the province of Perugia in Umbria (Central Italy)

• Gudenus, Moritz

  German convert to the Catholic faith from the Protestant ministry; b. 11 April, 1596, at Cassel; d. February, 1680

• Gudula, Saint

  Born in Brabant, one of a family of saints. She died in the early eighth century

• Guéranger, Prosper Louis Pascal

  Benedictine and polygraph; b. 4 April, 1805, at Sable-sur-Sarthe; d. at Solesmes, 30 January, 1875

• Guérard, Robert

  Writer, born at Rouen, 1641; died at the monastery of Saint-Ouen, 2 January, 1715

• Guérin

  Eugenie de Guerin, a French writer; b. at the chateau of La Cayla, in Languedoc, 15 January, 1805; d. there 5 June, 1848. Georges-Maurice de Guerin, a French poet, brother of Eugenie; b. at the chateau of La Cayla, in Languedoc, 5 August, 1810; d. there, 19 July, 1839

• Guérin, Anne-Thérèse

  In religion, Mother Theodore. Born at Etables (Cote du Nord), Brittany, France, 2 October, 1798; died 14 May, 1856

• Gügler, Joseph Heinrich Aloysius

  Born at Udligerschwyl, near Lucerne, Switzerland, 25 August, 1782; died at Lucerne, 28 February, 1827

• Guglielmini, Giovanni Battista

  Scientist, b. at Bologna, 16 August, 1763; d. in the same city, 15 December, 1817

• Guiana

  The name given to all that region of South America which extends along the Atlantic coast from the Orinoco to the Amazon

• Guibert of Ravenna

  An antipope, known as Clement III, 1080 (1084) to 1100; born at Parma about 1025; died at Civita Castellana, 8 Sept., 1100

• Guicciardini, Francesco

  Biographical article by Edmund G. Gardner on the historian and statesman, who died in 1540

• Guido of Arezzo

  Article with life and summary of his contributions to musical theory and composition

• Guijon, André

  Bishop and orator (1548-1631)

• Guilds

  Voluntary associations for religious, social, and commercial purposes

• Guiney, Patrick Robert

  Soldier, born at Parkstown, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, on 15 Jan., 1835; died at Boston, 21 March, 1877

• Guiscard, Robert

  Duke of Apulia and Calabria, founder of the Norman state of the Two Sicilies; born about 1016; died 17 July, 1085

• Guise, House of

  A branch of the ducal family of Lorraine who played an important part in the religious troubles of France during the seventeenth century

• Guitmund

  A Bishop of Aversa, a Benedictine monk, theologian, and opponent of Berengarius; born at an unknown place in Normandy during the first quarter of the eleventh century; died between 1090-95, at Aversa, near Naples

• Gulf of St. Lawrence

  Vicariate erected 12 September, 1905, and formed from the prefecture Apostolic of the same name organized 29 May, 1882

• Gunpowder Plot, The

  Oath taken May, 1604, plot discovered November, 1605. Robert Catesby, the originator of the Powder Plot, owned estates at Lapworth and Ashby St. Legers

• Günther, Anton

  Philosopher; b. 17 Nov., 1783, at Lindenau, near Leitmeritz, Bohemia; d. at Vienna, 24 February, 1863

• Gunther, Blessed

  Lay brother, penitent, hermit in Bohemia, d. 1045

• Günther of Cologne

  An archbishop of that city, died 8 July, 873

• Gurk

  A prince-bishopric of Carinthia, suffragan to Salzburg

• Gury, Jean-Pierre

  Moral theologian; b. at Mailleroncourt, Haute-Saone, 23 January, 1801; d. at Merc ur, Haute Loire, 18 April, 1866

• Gusmão, Bartholomeu Lourenço de

  Naturalist, and the first aeronaut; b. in 1685 at Santos in the province of Sao Paulo, Brazil; d. 18 November, 1724, in Toledo, Spain

• Gutenberg, Johann

  Inventor of printing (1400-1467)

• Guthlac, Saint

  Brief biography of this soldier, monk, and hermit, who died in 714

• Guzmán, Fernando Pérez de

  Senor de Batres; Spanish historian and poet (1376-1458)

• Györ

  A Hungarian see, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Gran