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	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm Links to five articles about the subject.
	Gregory XIII, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07001b.htm Reigned 1572-1585.
	Gregory V, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06790a.htm Reigned 996-999.
	Good Friday - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06643a.htm The Friday on which the Church keeps the anniversary of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
	Gregory I ("the Great"), Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06780a.htm Biographical article on this Doctor of the Church, d. 604.

	Gregory VII, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06791c.htm 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.
	Grosseteste, Robert - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07037a.htm Bishop of Lincoln and one of the most learned men of the Middle Ages; b. about 1175; d. 9 October, 1253.
	Galilei, Galileo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06342b.htm 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.
	Gregory II, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06787a.htm Also known as Gregory Junior, or Gregory the Younger, d. 731.
	Gelasius I, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06406a.htm An assessment of his pontificate. He died in 496.

	Gregory III, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06789a.htm A Syrian, was elected the successor of Pope St. Gregory II by acclamation, d. 741.
	Gregory IV, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06789b.htm Reigned 827-44.
	Gregory VI, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06791a.htm Reigned 1045-46.
	God, Existence of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608b.htm 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.
	Gelasius II, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06407a.htm Reigned 1118-1119.

	Gentiles - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06422a.htm In the English versions of both Testaments it collectively designates the nations distinct from the Jewish people.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06585a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06585a.htm 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.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm 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.
	Guibert of Ravenna - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07063a.htm An antipope, known as Clement III, 1080 (1084) to 1100; born at Parma about 1025; died at Cività Castellana, 8 Sept., 1100.
	Gregory XVI, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07006a.htm Reigned 1831-1846.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06484b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06484b.htm History divided by time periods, beginning with before 1556.
	Gothic Architecture - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06665b.htm History of the style.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06689a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06689a.htm Leads to four articles on the subject.
	God, Nature and Attributes of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06612a.htm Covered as natural reason and faith.
	Gregory IX - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06796a.htm Reigned 1227-1241.

	Gregory XV, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07004b.htm Reigned 1621-1623.
	Gregory XII - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07001a.htm Reigned 1406-1415.
	Gregory VIII, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06795a.htm Reigned 1187.
	Gama, Vasco da - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06374a.htm 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.
	Gregory XIV, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07004a.htm Reigned 1590-1591.

	Grace, Supernatural - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06701a.htm Treatise on this fundamental building block of Christianity.
	Gregory VIII - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06795b.htm Antipope placed upon the papal chair by Emperor Henry V, 8 March, 1118.
	Grail, The Holy - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06719a.htm 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.
	God, Relation of the Universe to - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06614a.htm Sections include essential dependence of the universe on God, divine immanence and transcendence, and possibility of the supernatural.
	George, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06453a.htm Long, scholarly article on St. George, martyr, patron saint of England.

	Gregory VI - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06791b.htm Eleventh-century antipope.
	Germans in the United States - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06475c.htm Includes all German-speaking people, whether originally from Germany proper, Austria, Switzerland, or Luxembourg.
	Gospel and Gospels - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06655b.htm The word Gospel usually designates a written record of Christ's words and deeds.
	Genuflexion - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06423a.htm To genuflect, to bend the knee.
	German Literature - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06517a.htm History starting with the pre-Christian period to 800 A.D.

	Gift, Supernatural - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06553a.htm Something conferred on nature that is above all the powers (vires) of created nature.
	García Moreno, Gabriel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06379b.htm Ecuadorean patriot and statesman; b. at Guayaquil, 24 December, 1821; assassinated at Quito, 6 August, 1875.
	Gregory X, Pope Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06798a.htm Biographical article on this thirteenth-century pope. Includes bibliography.
	Georgetown University - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06458a.htm 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".
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06419a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06419a.htm Archdiocese in Liguria, Northern Italy.

	Galvani, Luigi - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06371c.htm Physician, b. at Bologna, Italy, 9 September, 1737; d. there, 4 December, 1798.
	Geography and the Church - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06447a.htm Explains the nature of this science and the course of its evolution.
	Gassendi, Pierre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06391b.htm French philosopher and scientist. Article by J.G. Hagen covers Gassendi's life and work in some detail.
	Gregory XI - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06799a.htm Reigned 1370-1378.
	"God", Etymology of the Word - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608x.htm Anglo-Saxon God; German Gott; akin to Persian khoda; Hindu khooda.

	Greek Church - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06752a.htm Details the history and various divisions of the church.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06602a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06602a.htm Archdiocese in India.
	Gregory of Tours, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07018b.htm Lengthy article about this bishop, historian, and theologian. He died in 593 or 594.
	Giotto di Bondone - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06565a.htm 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.
	Genealogy of Christ - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06410a.htm Offers the genealogy according to Saint Matthew and Saint Luke.

	Gregory of Nyssa, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07016a.htm Bishop, one of the Cappadocian Fathers, d. after 385 or 386.
	Gutenberg, Johann - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07090a.htm Inventor of printing. (1400-1467)
	Ghirlandajo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06545a.htm Florentine painter; b. 1449; d. 11 Jan., 1494.
	Gloria in Excelsis Deo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06583a.htm 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, ii, 14). To this verse others were added very early, forming a doxology.
	Gabriel the Archangel, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06330a.htm One of the three archangels mentioned in the Bible.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06460a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06460a.htm 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.
	Gaul, Christian - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06395b.htm The Church of Gaul first appeared in history in connexion with the persecution at Lyons under Marcus Aurelius (177).
	Gall, Abbey of Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06347a.htm 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.
	Gambling - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06375b.htm The staking of money or other thing of value on the issue of a game of chance.
	Good Shepherd, Our Lady of Charity of the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06647c.htm 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.

	Glastonbury Abbey - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06579a.htm Benedictine monastery, Somersetshire, England, pre-eminently the centre of early Christian tradition in England.
	Good Faith - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06642a.htm 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.
	Gregory of Nazianzus, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07010b.htm Biographical article on this Doctor of the Church, known in the Christian East as St. Gregory the Theologian.
	Guyon, Jeanne-Marie-Bouvier de La Motte- - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07092b.htm Essay on the life, experiences, and teachings of this seventeenth-century French mystic.
	Guéranger, Prosper Louis Pascal - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07058a.htm Benedictine and polygraph; b. 4 April, 1805, at Sablé-sur-Sarthe; d. at Solesmes, 30 January, 1875.

	Greek Rites - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06774a.htm People who speak of the Greek Rite generally mean that of Constantinople.
	Gallican Rite, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06357a.htm The rite which prevailed in Gaul until about the middle or end of the eighth century.
	Godfrey of Bouillon - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06624b.htm 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.
	Gloves, Episcopal - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06589a.htm Liturgical gloves are a liturgical adornment reserved for bishops and cardinals.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06402c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06402c.htm One of the Greater Judges of Israel. He belonged to the tribe of Manasses, and to the family of Abiezer.

	Gallitzin, Demetrius Augustine - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06367b.htm Prince, priest, and missionary. (1770-1840)
	Gorkum, The Martyrs of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06651c.htm Their beatification took place on 14 Nov., 1675, and their canonization on 29 June, 1865.
	Gethsemane - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06540a.htm The place in which Jesus Christ suffered the Agony and was taken prisoner by the Jews.
	Guardian Angels, Feast of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07050a.htm This feast, like many others, was local before it was placed in the Roman calendar.
	Glendalough, School of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06582b.htm Founded by St. Kevin.

	Gervasius and Protasius, Saints - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06537a.htm Martyred in Milan, probably in the second century.
	Ghibellines and Guelphs - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07056c.htm Names adopted by the two factions that kept Italy divided and devastated by civil war during the greater part of the later Middle Ages.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06385a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06385a.htm A wreath of flowers or evergreens formerly used in connection with baptismal, nuptial, and funeral rites, as well as in solemn processions.
	Gregory of Neocaesarea, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07015a.htm Also known as Gregory Thaumaturgus, converted to Christianity by Origen, became a bishop, d. between 270 and 275.
	Greek Catholics in America - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06744a.htm Includes the history and statistics.

	Gerald, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06464b.htm English monk, Bishop of Mayo, d. 731. Brief biography.
	Graffiti - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06718c.htm 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.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06331b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06331b.htm A proper name which designates in the Bible, (I), a patriarch; (II), a tribe of Israel; (III), a prophet; (IV), a pagan deity.
	Genevieve, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06413f.htm Patroness of Paris, d. 512.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06715a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06715a.htm 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.

	Grace at Meals - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06714b.htm 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.
	Gregorian Chant - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06779a.htm Short description and history, with links to more information.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06648b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06648b.htm There were three Roman emperors of this name, who reigned between A.D. 237-44, and all of whom met with violent deaths.
	Gordon Riots - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06649c.htm 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.
	Guaraní Indians - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07045a.htm 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.

	Gerard Majella, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06467c.htm Tailor, Redemptorist, called "Father of the Poor," d. 1755.
	Guardian Angels - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07049c.htm The lowest orders of angels are sent to men.
	Germaine Cousin, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06474a.htm Sickly, pious shepherdess, cruelly treated by her stepmother. St. Germaine died in 1601, at the age of 22.
	Gertrude of Nivelles, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06533c.htm Benedictine abbess of a double monastery, d. 659.
	Gregory the Illuminator, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07023a.htm Patron of Armenia. Husband and father, bishop, d. possibly in 337.

	Golden Rose - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06629a.htm 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.
	Gonzaga, Scipione - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06635b.htm Cardinal; b. at Mantua, 11 November, 1542; d. at San Martino, 11 January, 1593.
	Geography, Biblical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06428c.htm 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.
	Gertrude the Great, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06534a.htm Benedictine, mystic, author, d. 1301 or 1302.
	Gnosticism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06592a.htm 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.

	Gluttony - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06590a.htm The excessive indulgence in food and drink.
	Golden Calf - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06628b.htm 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 III Kings, xii (cf. II Par., xi), in connection with the policy of Jeroboam after the schism of the ten tribes.
	Ghost Dance - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06547b.htm 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.
	Guadalupe, Shrine of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07043a.htm 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.
	Gospel in the Liturgy - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06659a.htm 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.

	Giles, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06559a.htm Also known as Aegidius. Hermit and then abbot in late seventh-century Gaul.
	Genealogy (in the Bible) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06408a.htm The word genealogy occurs only twice in the New Testament: I Tim., i, 4, and Tit., iii, 9. 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.
	Good, Highest, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06640a.htm (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 Eudæmonism, or tempered Deontologism, when both virtue and happiness are combined in the highest good.
	Genesius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06413c.htm Five people with this name including: Genesius of Rome; Genesius of Arles; Genesius, Bishop of Clermont; Genesius Count of Clermont; and Genesius of Lyons.
	Gamaliel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06374b.htm Famous Pharisee and Rabbi.

	Generation - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06412c.htm 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.
	Galerius, Valerius Maximianus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06341a.htm 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.
	Gaudete Sunday - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06394b.htm The third Sunday of Advent, so called from the first word of the Introit at Mass (Gaudete, i.e. Rejoice).
	Galatians, Epistle to the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06336a.htm Background on Galatia, purpose and date, a summary of its contents, its importance and a discussion of some difficulties.
	Greek Orthodox Church in America - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06772a.htm The name Orthodox Church is generally used to distinguish those of the Greek Rite who are not in communion with the Holy See.

	Groote, Gerard - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07036a.htm Founder of the "Brethren of the Common Life", b. 1340 at Deventer, Gelderland; d. 20 Aug., 1384.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06341c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06341c.htm The native land of Jesus Christ, where He began His ministry and performed many of His works, and whence He drew His Apostles.
	Guido of Arezzo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07065a.htm Article with life and summary of his contributions to musical theory and composition.
	Gabbatha - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06328b.htm The Aramaic appellation of a place in Jerusalem, designated also under the Greek name of Lithostrotos.
	Guayaquil - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07054b.htm The capital of the Ecuadorian province of Guayas.

	Gunpowder Plot, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07081b.htm Oath taken May, 1604, plot discovered November, 1605. Robert Catesby, the originator of the Powder Plot, owned estates at Lapworth and Ashby St. Legers.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07066c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07066c.htm Voluntary associations for religious, social, and commercial purposes.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06729c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06729c.htm Details on this Roman Emperor who was the son of Valentinian I. He was born at Sirmium, 359 and died at Lyons, 383.
	Giovanni Melchior Bosco, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02689d.htm Commonly called Don Bosco or John Bosco. Founder of the Salesians, d. 1888.
	Grace, Actual - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06689x.htm A supernatural gift of God to intellectual creatures (men, angels) for their eternal salvation.

	Guérin, Anne-Thérèse - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07059b.htm In religion, Mother Theodore. Born at Etables (Côte du Nord), Brittany, France, 2 October, 1798; died 14 May, 1856.
	Glosses, Scriptural - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06586a.htm The word gloss designates not only marginal notes, but also words or remarks inserted for various reasons in the very text of the Scriptures.
	Gallicanism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06351a.htm 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.
	Giulio Romano - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06572a.htm 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.
	Gog and Magog - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06628a.htm 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).

	Gerard of Cremona - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06468a.htm A twelfth-century student of Arabic science and translator from Arabic into Latin; born at Cremona, in 1114; died in 1187.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06735a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06735a.htm History of the country and church.
	Grace, Controversies on - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06710a.htm These are concerned chiefly with the relation between grace and free will.
	Germain, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06472b.htm A married lawyer, rather worldly, became Bishop of Auxerre, d. 448 or 450. Biography.
	Gennadius of Marseilles - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06417a.htm A priest whose chief title to fame is his continuation of St. Jerome's catalogue "De Viris illustribus".

	Guise, House of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07074a.htm A branch of the ducal family of Lorraine who played an important part in the religious troubles of France during the seventeenth century.
	Gnesen-Posen - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06590b.htm Archdiocese in the Kingdom of Prussia.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06721b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06721b.htm Located in Hungary.
	Gower, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06685a.htm Poet; born between 1327-1330, probably in Kent; died October, 1408.
	Gerson, Jean de Charlier de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06530c.htm Biographical article. Examines his view of conciliarism, and considers his mystical theology.

	Gottschalk of Orbais - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06682a.htm A medieval theologian; b. about 800, d. after 866, probable 30 October, 868.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06654b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06654b.htm Capital of the Austrian crown-land Görz and Gradiska.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06542c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06542c.htm Comprises the whole territory of East Flanders, one of the nine provinces of Belgium.
	Grottaferrata, Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07040b.htm A Basilian monastery near Rome.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06333a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06333a.htm Archdiocese in the province of Caserta in Campania (Southern Italy).

	Giordano, Luca - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06564b.htm Neapolitan painter; b. at Naples, 1632; d. in the same place, 12 Jan., 1705.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06577b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06577b.htm Archdiocese in the south-west of Scotland.
	Guarino da Verona - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07053a.htm A humanist, b. 1370, at Verona, Italy; d. 1460, at Ferrara.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06723a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06723a.htm Archdiocese in Spain, founded by St. Cecilius about the year 64, was made an archiepiscopal see by Alexander VI, 23 Jan., 1493.
	Gams, Pius Bonifacius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06376a.htm Ecclesiastical historian. (1816-1892)

	Guiscard, Robert - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07072b.htm Duke of Apulia and Calabria, founder of the Norman state of the Two Sicilies; born about 1016; died 17 July, 1085.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07055a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07055a.htm Diocese of Eugubinensis, in the province of Perugia in Umbria (Central Italy).
	Glosses, Glossaries, Glossarists - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06588a.htm 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.
	Gratry, Auguste-Joseph-Alphonse - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06731b.htm French priest and writer; b. at Lille, 30 March, 1805; d. at Montreux, Switzerland, 7 February, 1872.
	Giraud de Borneil - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06570b.htm A Provençal troubadour, b. about the middle of the twelfth century, at Excideuil in the Viscounty of Limoges.

	Gallienus, Publius Licinius Egnatius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06366a.htm Roman emperor; b. about 218; d. at Milan, 4 March, 268.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06378a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06378a.htm Diocese; suffragan of Aix, includes the department of the Hautes-Alpes.
	Giorgione - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06564c.htm Italian painter, b. at Castelfranco in or before 1477; d. in Venice in October or November, 1510.
	Glaber, Raoul - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06574b.htm Benedictine chronicler; b. in Burgundy before 1000; d. at Cluny about 1050.
	Guatemala, Santiago de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07054a.htm Archdiocese conterminous with the Republic of Guatemala, in Central America.

	Graz, University of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06733d.htm 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.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06530a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06530a.htm 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.
	Godfrey of Viterbo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06626b.htm German writer of the twelfth century.
	Gemblours - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06407c.htm 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.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06399c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06399c.htm A titular see of Palaestina Prima, in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

	Godfrey of Fontaines - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06626a.htm A scholastic philosopher and theologian; born near Liège within the first half of the thirteenth century.
	Ghiberti, Lorenzo di Cione - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06544a.htm Sculptor; b. at Florence about 1381; d. there, December, 1455.
	Gioberti, Vincenzo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06562b.htm An Italian statesman and philosopher; b. at Turin, 5 April, 1801; d. at Paris, 26 October, 1852.
	Galway and Kilmacduagh - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06373a.htm Diocese in Ireland; an amalgamation of two distinct ancient sees.
	Gregory of Heimburg - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07010a.htm Humanist and Statesman, b. at Würzburg in the beginning of the fifteenth century; d. at Tharandt near Dresden, August, 1472.

	Grey Nuns - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07031a.htm The Order of Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal, commonly called Grey Nuns because of the colour of their attire, was founded in 1738.
	Grosseto - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07039a.htm Suffragan diocese of Siena.
	Granvelle, Antoine Perrenot de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06727a.htm Named Archbishop of Mechlin in 1559 and cardinal in 1561.
	Georgius Syncellus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06463a.htm The author of one of the more important medieval Byzantine chronicles, died after 810.
	Gil de Albornoz, Alvarez Carillo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06558a.htm A renowned cardinal, general, and statesman; b. about 1310 at Cuenca in New Castile; d. 23 Aug., 1367.

	Guarantees, Law of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07048a.htm 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.
	Giraldus Cambrensis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06568d.htm Biographical article on the medieval ecclesiastic and writer.
	Greenland - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06777b.htm An island stretching from within the Arctic Circle south to about 59 degrees N. latitude, being between 20 degrees and 75 degrees W. longitude.
	Gaubil, Antoine - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06393b.htm French Jesuit and missionary to China, b. at Gaillac (Aveyron), 14 July, 1689; d. at Peking, 24 July, 1759.
	Gilbert de la Porrée - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06555a.htm Bishop of Poitiers, philosopher, theologian and general scholar; b. at Poitiers in 1076; d. in 1154.

	Gaddi, Agnolo, Giovanni, and Taddeo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06332b.htm Florentine artists, Taddeo being the father of Agnolo and Giovanni.
	Geiler von Kayserberg, Johann - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06403c.htm A celebrated German pulpit orator, b. at Schaffhausen, Switzerland, 16 March, 1445; d. at Strasburg, 10 March, 1510.
	Gousset, Thomas-Marie-Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06684b.htm French cardinal and theologian; b. at Montigny-les-Charlieu, a village of Franche-Comté, in 1792; d. at Reims in 1866.
	Glarean, Henry - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06577a.htm 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.
	Guadalajara - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07042b.htm Archdiocese in Mexico, separated from the Diocese of Michoacan by Paul III, 31 July, 1548.

	Giuseppe Maria Tommasi, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06573a.htm Cardinal, scholar, and author, died 1713.
	Guglielmini, Giovanni Battista - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07061a.htm Scientist, b. at Bologna, 16 August, 1763; d. in the same city, l5 December, 1817.
	Gerbillon, Jean-François - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06471a.htm French missionary; born at Verdun, 4 June, 1654; died at Peking, China, 27 March, 1707.
	Gibraltar - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06550a.htm 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.
	General Chapter - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06412b.htm 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.

	Giovanni Dominici, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05112a.htm Biography of the Dominican preacher and writer.
	George of Trebizond - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06456a.htm A Greek scholar of the early Italian Renaissance; b. in Crete (a Venetian possession from 1206-1669), 1395; d. in Rome, 1486.
	Galland, Antoine - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06349b.htm French Orientalist and numismatist, b. at Rollot, near Montdidier, in Picardy, 1646, d. at Paris, 1715.
	Goldwell, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06631b.htm Bishop of St. Asaph, the last survivor of the ancient hierarchy of England; b. between 1501 and 1515; d. in Rome, 3 April, 1585.
	Geoffrey of Monmouth - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06428a.htm Abbot of St. Alban's, d. at St. Alban's, 26 Feb., 1146.

	Giuseppe Giusti - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06574a.htm A poet and patriot; b. 1809, at Monsumano near Pescia, Italy; d. 31 March, 1850.
	Gentile da Fabriano - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06421a.htm Italian painter; b. probably about 1378 in the District of the Marches; d. probably 1427.
	Gerdil, Hyacinthe Sigismond - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06471b.htm Cardinal and theologian; b. at Samoëns in Savoy, 20 June, 1718; d. at Rome, 12 August 1802.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06377b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06377b.htm A titular see in the province of Paphlagonia.
	Gallandi, Andrea - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06349c.htm Oratorian and patristic scholar, born at Venice, 7 December, 1709; died there 12 January, 1779, or 1780.

	Guicciardini, Francesco - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07064a.htm Biographical article by Edmund G. Gardner on the historian and statesman, who died in 1540.
	Galloway, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06370a.htm Situated in the southwest of Scotland.
	Germanicia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06475a.htm A titular see in the province of Euphratensis and the patriarchate of Antioch; incorrectly called Germaniciana and located in Byzacene, Africa.
	Gregory of Valencia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07021b.htm Professor of the University of Ingolstadt, b. at Medina, Spain); d. at Naples, 25 April, 1603.
	Gildas, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06557c.htm 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.

	Gounod, Charles-François - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06683b.htm An article focusing especially on his religious compositions and the effect of his beliefs on his compositions.
	Gonzaga, Ercole - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06635a.htm Cardinal; b. at Mantua, 23 November, 1505; d. 2 March, 1563.
	Grillparzer, Franz - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07033b.htm An Austrian poet, b. at Vienna, 15 January, 1791, d. 21 January, 1872.
	Guadeloupe - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07044a.htm Diocese in the West Indies, comprises the islands of Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and the French portions of St. Martin and St Bartholomew.
	Gunther, Anton - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07085a.htm Philosopher; b. 17 Nov., 1783, at Lindenau, near Leitmeritz, Bohemia; d. at Vienna, 24 February, 1863.

	Gravier, Jacques - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06732b.htm Jesuit missionary; born 1651 at Moulins, where he studied classics and philosophy under the Jesuits; died in Louisiana in 1708.
	Gabriel, Brothers of Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06330b.htm 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.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07062a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07062a.htm The name given to all that region of South America which extends along the Atlantic coast from the Orinoco to the Amazon.
	Germanus I, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06484a.htm Patriarch of Constantinople, defender of the veneration of ikons, d. 733 or 740.
	Gómara, Francisco Lopez de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06632a.htm Chaplain to Cortés. Born 1510. Wrote a severely flawed history of the Spanish conquest of the New World, though he himself had never been there.

	Gfrörer, August Friedrich - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06542a.htm German historian; b. at Calw, Würtemberg, 5 March, 1803; d. at Karlsbad, 6 July, 1861.
	Gradual Psalms - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06718a.htm Fifteen psalms, namely Psalms 119-133.
	Gerhoh of Reichersberg - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06472a.htm 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.
	Grey Nuns of the Cross - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07031b.htm 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.
	Gerard, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06466c.htm Jesuit; born 4 October, 1564; died 27 July, 1637.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07088b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07088b.htm A prince-bishopric of Carinthia, suffragan to Salzburg.
	Garnet, Henry - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06386b.htm English martyr, b. 1553-4; d. 1606.
	Grand Rapids - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06726a.htm Diocese created 12 May, 1882 out of the diocese of Detroit.
	Gotti, Vincent Louis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16041d.htm Cardinal and theologian. (1664-1742)
	Glaire, Jean-Baptiste - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06576a.htm Priest, hebraist, and Biblical scholar; b. at Bordeaux, 1 April, 1798; d. at Issy, near Paris, 25 Feb., 1879.

	Glabrio, Manius Acilius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06575a.htm Consul at Rome during A.D. 91, with Trajan.
	Galveston - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06372a.htm 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.
	Gretser, Jacob - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07029b.htm A celebrated Jesuit writer; b. at Markdorf in the Diocese of Constance in 1562; d. at Ingolstadt in 1625.
	Gelasius of Cyzicus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06407b.htm 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.
	Guardianship, in Civil Jurisprudence - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07051a.htm 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.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06469a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06469a.htm A titular see in the province of Arabia and the Patriarchate of Antioch.
	Gerard, Bishop of Toul, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06466a.htm Biography of this tenth-century bishop.
	Gillespie, Neal Henry - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06560b.htm Brother of the foregoing; b. in Washington county, Pa., 19 January 1831; d. at St. Mary's, Notre Dame, Indiana, 12 November, 1874.
	Gunther of Cologne - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07088a.htm An archbishop of that city, died 8 July, 873.
	Greifswald, University of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07025a.htm The oldest university of Prussia, founded in 1456.

	Genesareth - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06413a.htm This is the name given to the Lake of Tiberias in Luke 5:1.
	Gratian, Jerome - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06729d.htm Spiritual director of St. Teresa and first Provincial of the Discalced Carmelites; born at Valladolid, 6 June, 1545; died at Brussels, 21 September, 1614.
	George Hamartolus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06455a.htm A monk at Constantinople under Michael III (842-867) and the author of a chronicle of some importance.
	Gennadius I, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06416a.htm Patriarch of Constantinople, d. 471.
	Green Bay - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06777a.htm Diocese established 3 March, 1868, from the territory of the Diocese of Milwaukee.

	Gabriel Lalemant, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08752b.htm Short biography of this Jesuit missionary.
	Gregory of Rimini - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07018a.htm Augustinian theologian, d. 1358.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06582a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06582a.htm 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.
	Garnier, Julien - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06389a.htm Jesuit missionary, born at Connerai, France, 6 January, 1642; d. in Quebec, 1730.
	Géry, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06537b.htm Bishop of Cambrai-Arras, d. between 623 and 626.

	Gallifet, Joseph de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06366b.htm French Jesuit. (1663-1749)
	Guigues du Chastel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07066a.htm Medieval Carthusian. (1083-1137)
	Gonet, Jean Baptiste - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06634a.htm Theologian, b. about 1616 at Beziers, in the province of Languedoc; d. there 24 Jan., 1681.
	Grosswardein - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07040a.htm A diocese of the Latin Rite in Hungary, suffragan of Kalocsa-Bács.
	Gervase of Tilbury - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06536c.htm Medieval writer, b. probably at Tilbury, in the County of Essex, England, about 1150; d. at Arlington, about 1220.

	Gennadius II - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06416b.htm 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.
	Gaudentius of Brescia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06394a.htm A theologian of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchins; b. at Brescia in 1612; d. at Oriano, 25 March, 1672.
	Gilbert Foliot - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06556a.htm Bishop of London, b. early in the twelfth century.
	Glagolitic - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06575b.htm An ancient alphabet of the Slavic languages, also called in Russian bukvitsa.
	Goldoni, Carlo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06631a.htm Brief biography of the Italian dramatist.

	Garcilasso de la Vega - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06382a.htm Historian of Peru. (1539-1617)
	Gregory Bæticus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07009a.htm Bishop of Elvira, in the province of Baetica, Spain, from which he derived his surname; d. about 392.
	Grimaldi, Francesco Maria - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07034a.htm Italian physicist, b. at Bologna, 2 April, 1618; d. in the same city, 28 Dec., 1663.
	Guarda, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07049a.htm Province of Beira, Portugal.
	Gerbet, Olympe-Phillipe - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06470b.htm A French bishop and writer; b. at Poligny (Jura), 1798; d. at Perpignan (Pyrénées Orientales), 1864.

	Grancolas, Jean - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06724b.htm Doctor of the Sorbonne, theologian, liturgist; b. near Chateaudun, about 1660; d. at Paris, 1 August, 1732.
	Gaston, William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06392c.htm Jurist: b. at Newbern, North Carolina, U.S.A., 19 Sept., 1778: d. at Raleigh, North Carolina, 28 January 1844.
	Gibault, Pierre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06548c.htm Missionary, b. at Montreal, Canada, 1737; d. at New Madrid, about 1804.
	Gröne, Valentin - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07035c.htm Catholic theologian. (1817-1882)
	Gloria, Laus et Honor - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16041b.htm A hymn composed by St. Theodulph of Orléans in 810.

	Guthlac, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07092a.htm Brief biography of this soldier, monk, and hermit, who died in 714.
	Grasse, François-Joseph-Paul - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06728a.htm Count and Marquess de Grasse-Tilly, lieutenant-general of the naval forces; b. near Toulon, 1723; d. at Paris, 11 January, 1788.
	Gallia Christiana - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06350c.htm 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.
	Gerardus Odonis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06468b.htm Also Geraldus Othonis, or Ottonis, a medieval theologian and Minister General of the Franciscan Order; born probably at Châteauroux, in the present department of Indre, France, date unknown; died at Catania, Sicily, 1348.
	Gury, Jean-Pierre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07089a.htm Moral theologian; b. at Mailleroncourt, Haute-Saône, 23 January, 1801; d. at Merc ur, Haute Loire, 18 April, 1866.

	Gillis, James - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06560c.htm Scottish bishop; b. at Montreal, Canada, 7 April, 1802; d. at Edinburgh, 24 February 1864.
	George Gervase, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06536a.htm Account of the dramatic life of this Benedictine priest and martyr, who died in 1608.
	Gérard, Abbot of Brogne, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06465b.htm Soldier turned monk, d. 959.
	Gillespie, Eliza Maria - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06560a.htm 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.
	Gottschalk, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06681a.htm Wendish prince, considered a martyr, d. 1066.

	Giraldi, Giovanni Battista - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06568b.htm Italian dramatist and novelist; b. at Ferrara, Italy, 1504; d. there, 1573.
	Gravina, Giovanni Vincenzo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06733b.htm Italian jurist and littérateur of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; b. at Rogliano, Calabria, 21 January, 1664; d. at Rome, 6 January, 1718.
	Goscelin - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06655a.htm Benedictine biographical writer. (d. 1099)
	Gozo, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06687b.htm Comprises the island of Gozo in the Mediterranean Sea and the islet of Comino.
	Gilbert of Sempringham, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06557b.htm Short biography of the founder of the Gilbertines, who died in 1189.

	Gilbertines, Order of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06556b.htm Founded by St. Gilbert, about the year 1130, at Sempringham, Gilbert's native place, where he was then parish priest.
	Gaudentius, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06393c.htm Successor of St. Philastrius as bishop of Brescia. Gaudentius died c. 410.
	Gerando, Joseph-Marie de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06465a.htm French statesman and writer, born at Lyons, 29 February, 1772; died at Paris, 10 November, 1842.
	Godfrey Goodman - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06646a.htm Anglican Bishop of Gloucester. (1582-3-1656)
	Girgenti - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06570d.htm The capital of a province in Sicily.

	Griffin, Gerald - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07032a.htm A novelist, dramatist, lyricist; b. 12 December, 1803, at Limerick, Ireland; d. at Cork, 12 June, 1840.
	George Haydock, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07159a.htm Biographical article on the English priest and martyr. Includes bibliography.
	Grimmelshausen, Johann Jacob Christoffel von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07035b.htm German novelist of the seventeenth century.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06349d.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06349d.htm Diocese in Ceylon, created by Leo XIII 25 Aug., 1893.
	Gaume, Jean-Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06398b.htm French theologian and author, b. at Fuans (Franche-Comté) in 1802; d. in 1879.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06332a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06332a.htm A titular see of Palaestina Prima; there were two sees of this name, one in Palaestina Prima, the other in Palaestina Secunda.
	Goossens, Pierre-Lambert - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06648a.htm Cardinal, Archbishop of Michlin (Belgium), b. at Perck, near Vilvorde, 18 July, 1827; d. at Michlin, 25 January, 1906.
	Gennings, Edmund and John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06418a.htm 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.
	Gesellenvereine - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06538a.htm German Catholic societies for the religious, moral, and professional improvement of young men.
	Gottweig, Abbey of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06682b.htm A Benedictine abbey situated on a hill of the same name, south of Krems, in Lower Austria.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06348b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06348b.htm Vicariate Apostolic embracing the territory of the Galla or Oromo tribes in Abyssinia.
	Grün, Anastasius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07042a.htm Pseudonym for Anton Alexander (Maria), Count von Auersperg, a nineteenth-century Austrian poet.
	Greuze, Jean-Baptiste - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07029c.htm French painter, b. at Tournus in Ardeche, 21 August, 1725; d. at Paris, 21 March, 1805.
	Gaspare del Bufalo, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06390b.htm Founder of the Missionaries of the Most Precious Blood, died 1837.
	George the Bearded - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06457a.htm Duke of Saxony, b. at Dresden, 27 August, 1471; d. in the same city, 17 April, 1539.

	Ghislain, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06547a.htm Hermit in Belgium, confessor, died c. 680.
	Garrucci, Raffaele - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06389b.htm A historian of Christian art, b. at Naples, 22 January, 1812; d. at Rome, 5 May, 1885.
	Gorgonius, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06651b.htm 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.
	Giocondo, Fra Giovanni - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06563a.htm An Italian architect, antiquary, archaeologist, and classical scholar, b. in Verona, c. 1445; d. in Venice (?), c. 1525.
	Gorres, Johann Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06652b.htm Writer and professor of physics. (1776-1848)

	Gervase of Canterbury - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06536b.htm English chronicler, b. about 1141; d. in, or soon after, 1210.
	Godet des Marais, Paul - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06624a.htm Bishop of Chartres, France; b. at Talcy, near Blois, 1647; d. at Chartres, 1709.
	George Pisides - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06456b.htm A Byzantine poet who lived in the first half of the seventh century.
	Guardi, Francesco - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07049b.htm Venetian painter. (1712-1793)
	George Napper, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10703a.htm Or George Napier. Expelled from university for being Catholic, imprisoned for nearly 9 years for merely visiting the English College at Reims, finally martyred for being a priest. He died in 1610.

	Guiney, Patrick Robert - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07072a.htm Soldier, born at Parkstown, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, on 15 Jan., 1835; died at Boston, 21 March, 1877.
	Grace, William Russell - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06714a.htm Philanthropist and merchant, born at Cork, Ireland, 10 May, 1832; died at New York, 21 March, 1904.
	Gossaert, Jan - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06663b.htm Flemish painter; b. about 1472; d. at Middelburg about 1533.
	Godard, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06621a.htm Benedictine abbot, bishop of Hildesheim, d. 1038.
	Gil of Santarem, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06561b.htm Portuguese Dominican, d. 1265.

	Genezareth, Land of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06415a.htm 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".
	German Gardiner, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06474b.htm 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.
	Gabriel Sionita - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06331a.htm 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.
	Goar, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06606b.htm Priest, hermit, d. 649.
	Garcilasso de la Vega - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06381a.htm Spanish poet. (1503-1536)

	Gagarin, Ivan Sergejewitch - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06334a.htm 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.
	Gesta Romanorum - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06539b.htm A medieval collection of anecdotes, to which moral reflections are attached.
	George Beesley, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02389a.htm English priest and martyr, died 1591.
	Guarini, Battista - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07052a.htm An Italian poet, b. at Ferrara, 1538, d. at Venice, 7 Oct., 1612.
	Gagliardi, Achille - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06334b.htm Ascetic writer and spiritual director; born at Padua, Italy, in 1537; died at Modena, 6 July, 1607.

	Galtelli-Nuoro - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06371a.htm Diocese in the province of Sassari (Sardinia), suffragan of Caglari.
	Galla, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06348a.htm A Roman widow of the sixth century; feast, 5 October.
	Grandmont, Abbey and Order of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06725c.htm Abbey and Order in the department of Hte-Vienne, France.
	Gertrude van der Oosten, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06535a.htm Beguine, had the stigmata and the gift of prophecy, died on Epiphany, 1358.
	Gunther, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07084a.htm Lay brother, penitent, hermit in Bohemia, d. 1045.

	Gratian, Johannes - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06730a.htm 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.
	Gobban Saer - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06607b.htm 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.
	Gal, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06335b.htm 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.
	Gordianus and Epimachus, Saints - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06649a.htm Roman martyrs under Julian the Apostate. Both died in 362. Although they did not die together, they are buried together, and the cemetery is named after them. Identifies two other martyrs named Gordianus, considers several named Epimachus.
	Gozzi, Carlo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06688a.htm Italian author, born at Venice, 1720; died 1806.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06328c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06328c.htm Formerly called the Vicariate Apostolic of the Two Guineas.
	Gahan, William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06334c.htm A priest and author; born 5 June, 1732, in the parish of St. Nicholas, Dublin; died there, 6 December, 1804.
	Giberti, Gian Matteo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06549d.htm 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.
	Gottfried von Strasburg - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06680a.htm Middle High German epic poet.
	Germanicopolis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06475b.htm A titular see in the province of Isauria, suffragan of Seleucia.

	Gabriel Possenti, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06330c.htm Passionist student, d. 1862.
	Gonsalo Garcia, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06379a.htm Biography of the Franciscan martyr born in Vasai.
	Giovanelli, Ruggiero - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06568a.htm Composer, b. at Velletri, near Rome, in 1560; d. at Rome, 7 January, 1625.
	Gilbert, Sir John Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06554b.htm Irish archivist and historian, b. in Dublin, 23 January, 1829; d. there, 23 May, 1898.
	Gifford, William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06552b.htm Archbishop of Reims; b. in Hampshire, 1554; d. at Reims, 11 April, 1629.

	Gibbons, Richard - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06549b.htm Brother of Father John Gibbons, born at Winchester, 1550 or 1549; died at Douai, 23 June, 1632.
	Garland, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06385b.htm English poet and grammarian, who lived in the middle of the thirteenth century.
	Giannone, Pietro - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06548a.htm Italian historian, born 7 May, 1676, at Ischitella in the province of Capinata, Naples; died at Turin, 27 March, 1748.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07060a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07060a.htm Eugénie de Guérin, a French writer; b. at the château of La Cayla, in Languedoc, 15 January, 1805; d. there 5 June, 1848. Georges-Maurice de Guérin, a French poet, brother of Eugénie; b. at the château of La Cayla, in Languedoc, 5 August, 1810; d. there, 19 July, 1839.
	Giordani, Tommasso - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06564a.htm A composer, b. at Naples in 1738; d. at Dublin, Ireland, February 1806.

	Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06686a.htm Painter and etcher, b. in Fuendetodos, Aragon, Spain, 31 March, 1746; d. in Bordeaux, 16 April, 1828.
	Gonnelieu, Jérôme de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06634b.htm Theologian, ascetical writer, and preacher; born at Soissons, 8 Sept., 1640; died at Paris, 28 Feb., 1715.
	Gesta Dei per Francos - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06539a.htm Title adopted by Guibert de Nogent (died about 1124) for his history of the First Crusade.
	Grimaldi, Giovanni Francesco - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07035a.htm An eclectic painter of the Bolognese school; b. at Bologna, 1606; d. at Rome, 1680.
	Girard, Jean-Baptiste - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06569a.htm Known as Père Girard, a Swiss pedagogue, b. at Fribourg, 17 December, 1765; d. there, 6 March, 1850.

	Gertrude of Aldenberg, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06533a.htm Longtime abbess of a Premonstratensian convent near Wetzlar. She died in 1297.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06529b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06529b.htm A titular see of Galatia Secunda, a suffragan of Pessinus; mentioned by Hierocles in the sixth century.
	Gobelinus, Person - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06607c.htm Westphalian known as an historian and an ardent reformer of monastic life in his native land. (1358-1421)
	Geramb, Baron Ferdinand de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06464d.htm 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.
	Gaspe, Philippe-Aubert de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06391a.htm French Canadian writer, b. at Quebec, 30 Oct., 1786, of a family ennobled by Louis XIV in 1693, d. 29 Jan., 1871.

	Genga, Girolamo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06415b.htm A painter, born at Urbino in 1476; died at the same place, 1551.
	Gother, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06665a.htm Priest and controversialist; b. at Southampton, date unknown; d. at sea on a voyage to Lisbon, 2 October, 1704.
	Gratianopolis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06730b.htm A titular see in Caesarea Mauretania, Africa.
	Geoffrey of Clairvaux - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06427a.htm A disciple of Bernard, was b. between the years 1115 and 1120, at Auxerre; d. some time after the year 1188.
	Goffine, Leonard - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06627b.htm Priest and writer. Born at Cologne, or according to some, at Broich, 6 December, 1648; died 11 August, 1719.

	Gratius, Ortwin - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06731a.htm Humanist; b. 1475 at Holtwick, near Coesfeld, Westphalia; d. at Cologne, 22 May, 1542.
	Genebrard, Gilbert - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06412a.htm Benedictine exegete and Orientalist, b. 12 December, 1535, at Riom, in the department of Puy-de-Dôme; d. 16 Feb., 1597.
	Galatino, Pietro Colonna - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06340a.htm Friar Minor, philosopher, theologian, Orientalist; b. at Galatia (now Cajazzo) in Apulia; d. at Rome, soon after 1539.
	Gandolphy, Peter - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06377a.htm Jesuit preacher; b. in London, 26 July, 1779; d. at East Sheen, Surrey, 9 July, 1821.
	Gethsemane, Abbey of Our Lady of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06541a.htm 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.

	Gerard, Richard - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06467b.htm Confessor; born about 1635; died 11 March, 1680.
	Gassner, Johann Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06392b.htm A celebrated exorcist; b. 22 Aug., 1727, at Braz, Vorarlberg, Austria; d. 4 April, 1779.
	Glanville, Ranulf de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06576b.htm Chief Justiciar of England; b. at Stratford, Suffolk, England, date unknown; d. before Acre, Palestine, 1190.
	Gusmão, Bartholomeu Lourenço de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07089b.htm Naturalist, and the first aeronaut; b. in 1685 at Santos in the province of São Paulo, Brazil; d. 18 November, 1724, in Toledo, Spain.
	Griffin, Martin Ignatius Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16042b.htm Journalist, historian. (1842-1911)

	Good Samaritan, Sisters of the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06647b.htm A congregation of Tertiaries Regular of St. Benedict, established 2 February, 1857, at Sydney, Australia.
	Gomes De Amorim, Francisco - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06632b.htm Portuguese poet, dramatist, and novelist. (1827-1891)
	Gregory of Utrecht, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07021a.htm Missionary companion of St. Boniface, and later an abbot, d. 775 or 780.
	Gonzalo de Berceo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636a.htm Spanish poet, active between 1220 and 1242.
	Germain, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06473a.htm Monk, Bishop of Paris, d. 576.

	Gremiale - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07026a.htm 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.
	Gamans, Jean - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06375a.htm Priest and missionary. (1606-1684)
	Grueber, Johann - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07041a.htm German Jesuit missionary in China and noted explorer of the seventeenth century.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06570c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06570c.htm A titular see in the province of African Tripoli.
	Gudula, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07056b.htm Born in Brabant, one of a family of saints. She died in the early eighth century.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06626c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06626c.htm The name of two Abbots of Croyland.
	Godeau, Antoine - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06622a.htm Bishop, poet and exegete; b. at Dreux in the diocese of Chartres, 1605; d. at Vence, 21 April, 1672.
	Gall, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06346b.htm Late sixth- to early seventh-century Irish hermit.
	Godelina, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06623b.htm Physically and psychologically abused by her husband Bertolf and mother-in-law, until finally she was murdered at Bertolf's orders in 1070.
	Gaillard, Claude Ferdinand - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06335a.htm French engraver and painter; b. at Paris, 7 Jan., 1834; d. there, 27 Jan., 1887.

	Grassis, Paris de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06729b.htm Master of ceremonies to Julius II and Leo X; b. at Bologna, about 1470; d. at Rome, 10 June, 1528.
	Gondulphus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06633a.htm 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.
	Gradwell, Robert - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06718b.htm Bishop; b. at Clifton-in-the-Fylde, Lancashire, 26 Jan., 1777; d. in London, 15 March, 1833.
	Giuseppe Maria Pignatelli, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12082b.htm Jesuit priest, novice master, provincial, d. 1811.
	Gilmore, Patrick Sarsfield - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06561a.htm A musician, born at Ballygar Galway, Ireland, 25 Dec., 1829; died at St. Louis, 24 Sept., 1892.

	Ginoulhiac, Jacques-Marie-Achille - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06562a.htm A French bishop; b. at Montpellier (department of Herault) 3 Dec., 1806; d. there 17 Nov., 1875.
	Gau, Franz Christian - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06393a.htm Architect and archæologist, b. at Cologne, 15 June, 1790; d. at Paris, January, 1854.
	Good Hope, Eastern Vicariate of the Cape of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06645a.htm Established in 1847, when the Vicariate of the Cape of Good Hope was divided into Eastern and Western.
	Good Hope, Cape of (Western) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06645b.htm The Western vicariate and the Central prefecture, although different in name, are virtually one.
	Grassel, Lorenz - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06729a.htm Coadjutor-elect of Baltimore; born at Ruemannsfelden, Bavaria, 18 August, 1753; died at Philadelphia, U.S.A., October, 1793.

	Gazzaniga, Pietro Maria - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06401a.htm A theologian, b. at Bergamo, Italy, 3 March, 1722; d. at Vicenza, 11 Dec., 1799.
	Gaudier, Antoine de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06394c.htm A writer on asectic theology; b. at Château-Thierry, France, 7 January, 1572; d. at Paris, 14 April, 1622.
	Grant, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06726b.htm First Bishop of Southwark; b. at Ligny-les-Aires, Arras, France, 25 Nov., 1816; d. at Rome, 1 June, 1870.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06651a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06651a.htm A titular see in the province of Lydia, suffragan of Sardis.
	Gedoyn, Nicolas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06403a.htm A French translator and literary critic; b. at Orleans, 17 June, 1667; d. 10 August, 1744.

	Grandidier, Philippe-André - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06725b.htm Priest and historian, b. at Strasburg, Alsace, 9 Nov., 1752; d. at the Abbey of Luntzel (Lucelles), Sundgau, 11 Oct., 1787.
	Granderath, Theodor - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06725a.htm Known for his monumental labours on the Vatican Council.
	Gorres, Guido - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06652a.htm Historian, publicist, and poet; b. at Coblenz on 28 May, 1805; d. at Munich on 14 July, 1852.
	Gaudiosus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06395a.htm Bishop of Tarazona (Turiasso), Spain; died about 540.
	Gramont, Eugénie de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06721a.htm Religious of the Society of the Sacred Heart; b. at Versailles, 17 September, 1788; d. at Paris, 19 November, 1846.

	Gropper, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07036b.htm An eminent jurist and theologian, b. 24 Feb., 1503, at Soest, Westphalia; d. at Rome, 13 March, 1559.
	Graham, Patrick - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06718d.htm First Archbishop of St. Andrews and Metropolitan of Scotland, date of birth uncertain; d. 1478.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06654a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06654a.htm A titular see, and in the Greek Church metropolitan see, of the Island of Crete.
	Gavantus, Bartolommeo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06399a.htm Liturgist, a member of the Barnabite Order; b. at Monza, 1569; d. at Milan, 14 August, 1638.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06328a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06328a.htm A titular see of Syria Prima.

	Gosselin, Jean-Edmé-Auguste - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06664a.htm Ecclesiastical author; b. at Rouen, France, 28 Sept., 1787; d. at Paris, 27 Nov., 1858.
	George Nichols, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11065c.htm Biography of the English priest and martyr. Also some information on the Bl. Richard Yaxley, a fellow priest. They were arrested together with laymen Humphrey Prichard and Thomas Belson. All four were martyred in 1589.
	Guzmán, Fernando Pérez de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07094a.htm Señor de Batres; Spanish historian and poet (1376-1458).
	Galilei, Alessandro - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06342a.htm An eminent Florentine architect; born 1691; died 1737.
	Guadix, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16043a.htm Diocese in Spain, comprises the greater part of the Province of Granada and a portion of the Province of Almeria.

	Galien, Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06341b.htm Dominican, professor of philosophy and theology at the University of Avignon, meteorologist, physicist, and writer on aeronautics; b. 1699.
	Guijon, André - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07066b.htm Bishop and orator. (1548-1631)
	Guitmund - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07080a.htm 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 - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07081a.htm Vicariate erected 12 September, 1905, and formed from the prefecture Apostolic of the same name organized 29 May, 1882.
	Guaicuri Indians - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07044b.htm A group of small tribes, speaking dialectic forms of a common language, probably of distinct stock, formerly occupying part of Lower California.

	Galitzin, Elizabeth - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06346a.htm Princess, religious of the Sacred Heart; born at St. Petersburg, 22 February, 1797; died in Louisiana, 8 December, 1843.
	Gugler, Joseph Heinrich Aloysius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07060b.htm Born at Udligerschwyl, near Lucerne, Switzerland, 25 August, 1782; died at Lucerne, 28 February, 1827.
	Gudenus, Moritz - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07056a.htm German convert to the Catholic faith from the Protestant ministry; b. 11 April, 1596, at Cassel; d. February, 1680.
	González de Santalla, Thyrsus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06635c.htm Theologian and thirteenth general of the Society of Jesus, b. at Arganda, Spain, 18 January, 1624; died at Rome, 27 October, 1705.
	Gallait, Louis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06349a.htm Flemish painter; born at Tournai, 10 May, 1810; died in Brussels, 20 November, 1887.

	Gallwey, Peter - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06370c.htm Famous London priest. (1820-1906)
	Gallego, Juan Nicasio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06350a.htm Priest and poet; born at Zamora, Spain, 14 December, 1777; died at Madrid, 9 January, 1853.
	Galura, Bernhard - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06371b.htm Prince-Bishop of Brixen; b. 21 August, 1764, at Herbolzheim, Bresigau; d. 17 May, 1856.
	Guastalla, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07053b.htm Situated in the province of Reggio Emilia (Central Italy) on the left bank of the Po at its junction with the Crostolo.
	Grenoble - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07026b.htm Comprises the Department of Isère and the Canton of Villeurbanne (Rhône).

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06384c.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06384c.htm A titular see in the province of Asia, suffragan of Ephesus.
	Guastallines - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07053c.htm 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.
	Ghardaia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06542b.htm Prefecture Apostolic in the French Sahara, separated in 1901 from the Vicariate Apostolic of Sahara and the Soudan.
	Green, Thomas Louis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06776b.htm Priest and controversialist; b. at Stourbridge, Worcestershire, 1799; d. at Newport, Shropshire, 27 Feb., 1883.
	Gervaise, Dom François Armand - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06535b.htm Discalced Carmelite, b. at Paris, 1660; d. at Reclus, France, 1761.

	Galluppi, Pasquale - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06370b.htm 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.
	Gertrude of Hackeborn - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06533b.htm Cistercian Abbess of Helfta, near Eisleben; born near Halberstadt in 1232; died towards the end of 1292.
	Great Falls - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06734a.htm 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.
	Gasser von Valhorn, Joseph - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06392a.htm Austrian sculptor, b. 22 Nov., 1816 at Prägraten, Tyrol; d. 28 Oct., 1900.
	Gravina and Montepeloso - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06733c.htm 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.

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06390a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06390a.htm Suffragan diocese of Popayan in the Republic of Colombia.
	Gravina, Dominic - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06733a.htm Theologian; b. in Sicily, about 1573; d. in the Minerva, at Rome, 26 Aug., 1643.
	Giberti, Jean-Pierre - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06549c.htm Canonist; b. at Aix, Provence, in 1660; d. at Paris in 1736.
	Gibbons, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06549a.htm Jesuit theologian and controversialist; b. 1544, at or near Wells, Somersetshire; died 16 Aug. or 3 Dec., 1589.
	Gibail and Batrun - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06548b.htm A Maronite residential see.

	Garesché, Julius Peter - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06384a.htm Soldier; born 26 April, 1821, near Havana, Cuba; killed at the battle of Stone River, Tennessee, U.S.A., 31 December, 1862.
	Gaultier, Aloisius-Edouard-Camille - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06398a.htm Priest and schoolmaster; b. at Asti, Piedmont, about 1745; d. at Paris, 18 Sept., 1818.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07094b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07094b.htm A Hungarian see, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Gran.
	Gilbert Islands - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06557a.htm Vicariate apostolic; comprises the group of that name, besides the islands of Ellice and Panapa.
	Griffiths, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07033a.htm Born in London, 2 June, 1791; died 19 August, 1847; the first and only Vicar Apostolic of the London District educated wholly in England.

	Gresset, Jean Baptiste - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07029a.htm Born 29 August, 1709; died 16 June, 1777, at Amiens.
	Gordon, Andrew - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06649b.htm Monk and physicist. (1712-1751)
	Geissel, Johannes von - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06405a.htm Cardinal, Archbishop of Cologne, b. 5 February, 1796, at Gimmeldingen, in the Palatinate; d. 8 September, 1864, at Cologne.
	Goodman, Ven. John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06647a.htm Priest and martyr; born in the Diocese of Bangor, Wales, 1590; died 1642.
	Gisbert, Blaise - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06571a.htm French rhetorician and critic; born at Cahors, 21 February, 1657; died at Montpellier, 21 February, 1731.

	Godden, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06621b.htm True name Tylden. Born at Addington, Kent, 1624; died in London, 1 Dec., 1688.
	González, Zeferino - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16041c.htm Dominican, cardinal, theologian, and philosopher. (1831-1894)
	Granada, University of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06724a.htm 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.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06530b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06530b.htm A titular see in the province of Augustamnica Prima, suffragan of Pelusium in the Patriarchate of Alexandria.
	Gindarus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06561c.htm A titular see of Syria Prima, in the Patriarchate of Antioch.

	Greith, Karl Johann - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07025b.htm Bishop and church historian, b. at Rapperswyl, Switzerland, 25 May, 1897; d. at St. Gall, 17 May, 1882.
	Germany, Vicariate Apostolic of Northern - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06529a.htm Its jurisdiction covers the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Meeklenburg-Strelitz, the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe, the free Hanse towns, Hamburg, Lübeck, and Bremen, the Principality of Lübeck (capital Eutin), belonging to the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, and the Island of Helgoland.
	Goar, Jacques - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06606c.htm Dominican and hellenist. (1601-1653)
	Girardon, François - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06570a.htm A noted sculptor of the reign of Louis XIV, b. at Troyes, France, 1630; d. at Paris, 1715.
	Gerhard of Zütphen - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06471c.htm Born at Zütphen, 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.

	Garneau, François-Xavier - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06386a.htm French Canadian historian. (1809-1866)
	Gerberon, Gabriel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06469b.htm A Benedictine of the Maurist Congregation. (1628-1711)
	Gresemund, Dietrich - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07028a.htm German humanist; b. in 1477, at Speyer; d. 1512, at Mainz.
	Geraldton - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06464c.htm Diocese in Australia, established in 1898, suffragan of Adelaide.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06464a.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06464a.htm Diocese in the province of Reggio in Calabria (Southern Italy).

	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06541b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06541b.htm Seat of two Catholic residential sees, one Chaldean, the other Syrian.
	Gobat, George - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06607a.htm 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.
	Gatianus, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06392d.htm First bishop of Tours, d. 301.
	Geoffrey of Vendôme - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06428b.htm A cardinal, b. in the second half of the eleventh century of a noble family, at Angers, France; d. there, 26 March, 1132.
	Goss, Alexander - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06663a.htm Bishop of Liverpool. (1814-1872)

	Goffe, Stephen - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06627a.htm Oratorian; b. 1605; d. at Paris, Christmas Day, 1681.
	Goetz, Marie Josephine - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06626d.htm 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.
	Goulburn - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06683a.htm One of the six suffragan sees of the ecclesiastical province of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
	Gebhart, Emile - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06402b.htm French professor and writer, b. 19 July, 1839, at Nancy; d. 22 April, 1908.
	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06688b.htm - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06688b.htm Painter; b. at Florence, 1420; d. at Pisa 1497.

	Godeberta, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06623a.htm Born in about 640, superior of a convent at Noyon.
	Geoffrey of Dunstable - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06427b.htm Abbot of St. Alban's, d. at St. Alban's, 26 Feb., 1146.
	Gebhard (III) of Constance - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06402a.htm Bishop of that city and strenuous defender of papal rights against imperial encroachments during the Investitures conflict; b. about 1040; d. 12 November, 1110.
	Garin, André - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06384d.htm An Oblate missionary and parish priest. (1822-1895)
	Genicot, Edward - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06415c.htm Moral theologian, b. at Antwerp, Belgium, 18 June, 1856; d. at Louvain, 21 February, 1900.

	Gentili, Aloysius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06422b.htm 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)
	Greslon, Adrien - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07028b.htm French Jesuit missionary. (1618-1697)
	Gegenbauer, Josef Anton - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06403b.htm An accomplished German historical and portrait painter, b. 6 March, 1800, at Wangen, Würtemberg; d. 31 January, 1876, at Rome.
	Galletti, Pietro Luigi - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06350b.htm Benedictine, historian and archaeologist; b. at Rome in 1724; d. there, 13 December, 1790.
	Gallipoli - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06366c.htm Diocese in the province of Lecce (Southern Italy).

	Gallitzin, Adele Amalie - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06367a.htm Princess; b. at Berlin, 28 Aug., 1748; d. at Angelmodde, near Münster, Westphalia, 17 April, 1806.
	Goajira, Vicariate Apostolic of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06606a.htm The most northern portion of South America is a peninsula running into the Caribbean Sea.
	Gallicanus, Saints - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06365a.htm Three saints by this name commemorated on 25 June.
	Guérard, Robert - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07059a.htm Writer, born at Rouen, 1641; died at the monastery of Saint-Ouen, 2 January, 1715.
	Giraldi, Ubaldo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06568c.htm An Italian canonist; b. in 1692; d. in 1775.

	Gerard, Archbishop of York - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06466b.htm Date of birth unknown; died at Southwell, 21 May, 1108.
	Garet, Jean - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06384b.htm Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, born at Havre about 1627; died at Jumieges, 24 September, 1694.
	Garnier, Jean - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06388c.htm Church historian, patristic scholar, and moral theologian; b. at Paris, 11 Nov., 1612; d. at Bologna, 26 Nov., 1681.
	Gratz, Peter Aloys - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06732a.htm Schoolmaster and exegete, b. 17 Aug., 1769, at Mittelberg, Allgäu, Bavaria; d. at Darmstadt, 1 Nov., 1849.
	Gilbert, Nicolas-Joseph-Laurent - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06554a.htm Poet, b. at Fontenoy-le-Château, 1751; d. at Paris, 12 November, 1780.

	Giffard, William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06552a.htm Second Norman Bishop of Winchester from 1100 to 1129.
	Giffard, Godfrey - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06551b.htm Bishop of Worcester, b. about 1235; d. 26 Jan., 1301.
	Giffard, Bonaventure - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06551a.htm Bishop, born at Wolverhampton, England, 1642; died at Hammersmith, Middlesex, 12 March, 1734
	Goyaz, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06687a.htm Co-extensive with the state of the same name, one of the twenty states which, with the Federal District, comprise the Republic of Brazil.
	Gardellini, Aloisio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06382b.htm Born at Rome, 4 Aug., 1759; died there, 8 Oct., 1829, famous chiefly for his collection of the decrees of the Congregation of Rites.

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