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• "God", Etymology of the Word

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608x.htm
  Anglo-Saxon God; German Gott; akin to Persian khoda; Hindu khooda.

• Gabala

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06328a.htm
  A titular see of Syria Prima.

• Gabbatha

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06328b.htm
  The Aramaic appellation of a place in Jerusalem, designated also under the Greek name of Lithostrotos.

• Gaboon

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06328c.htm
  Formerly called the Vicariate Apostolic of the Two Guineas.

• Gabriel Lalemant, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08752b.htm
  Short biography of this Jesuit missionary.

• Gabriel Possenti, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06330c.htm
  Passionist student, d. 1862.

• 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.

• Gabriel the Archangel, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06330a.htm
  One of the three archangels mentioned in the Bible.

• 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.

• Gad

  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.

• Gadara

  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.

• Gaddi, Agnolo, Giovanni, and Taddeo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06332b.htm
  Florentine artists, Taddeo being the father of Agnolo and Giovanni.

• Gaeta

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06333a.htm
  Archdiocese in the province of Caserta in Campania (Southern Italy).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Galilee

  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.

• Galilei, Alessandro

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06342a.htm
  An eminent Florentine architect; born 1691; died 1737.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gall, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06346b.htm
  Late sixth- to early seventh-century Irish hermit.

• Galla

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06348b.htm
  Vicariate Apostolic embracing the territory of the Galla or Oromo tribes in Abyssinia.

• Galla, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06348a.htm
  A Roman widow of the sixth century; feast, 5 October.

• Gallait, Louis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06349a.htm
  Flemish painter; born at Tournai, 10 May, 1810; died in Brussels, 20 November, 1887.

• 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.

• 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.

• Galle

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06349d.htm
  Diocese in Ceylon, created by Leo XIII 25 Aug., 1893.

• 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.

• Galletti, Pietro Luigi

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06350b.htm
  Benedictine, historian and archaeologist; b. at Rome in 1724; d. there, 13 December, 1790.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gallicanus, Saints

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06365a.htm
  Three saints by this name commemorated on 25 June.

• Gallienus, Publius Licinius Egnatius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06366a.htm
  Roman emperor; b. about 218; d. at Milan, 4 March, 268.

• Gallifet, Joseph de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06366b.htm
  French Jesuit. (1663-1749)

• 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.

• Gallitzin, Demetrius Augustine

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06367b.htm
  Prince, priest, and missionary. (1770-1840)

• Galloway, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06370a.htm
  Situated in the southwest of Scotland.

• 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.

• Gallwey, Peter

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06370c.htm
  Famous London priest. (1820-1906)

• Galtelli-Nuoro

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06371a.htm
  Diocese in the province of Sassari (Sardinia), suffragan of Caglari.

• Galura, Bernhard

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06371b.htm
  Prince-Bishop of Brixen; b. 21 August, 1764, at Herbolzheim, Bresigau; d. 17 May, 1856.

• Galvani, Luigi

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06371c.htm
  Physician, b. at Bologna, Italy, 9 September, 1737; d. there, 4 December, 1798.

• 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.

• Galway and Kilmacduagh

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06373a.htm
  Diocese in Ireland; an amalgamation of two distinct ancient sees.

• 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.

• Gamaliel

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06374b.htm
  Famous Pharisee and Rabbi.

• Gamans, Jean

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06375a.htm
  Priest and missionary. (1606-1684)

• 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.

• Gams, Pius Bonifacius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06376a.htm
  Ecclesiastical historian. (1816-1892)

• 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.

• Gangra

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06377b.htm
  A titular see in the province of Paphlagonia.

• Gap

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06378a.htm
  Diocese; suffragan of Aix, includes the department of the Hautes-Alpes.

• 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.

• Garcilasso de la Vega

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06381a.htm
  Spanish poet. (1503-1536)

• Garcilasso de la Vega

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06382a.htm
  Historian of Peru. (1539-1617)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gargara

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06384c.htm
  A titular see in the province of Asia, suffragan of Ephesus.

• Garin, André

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06384d.htm
  An Oblate missionary and parish priest. (1822-1895)

• Garland

  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.

• Garland, John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06385b.htm
  English poet and grammarian, who lived in the middle of the thirteenth century.

• Garneau, François-Xavier

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06386a.htm
  French Canadian historian. (1809-1866)

• Garnet, Henry

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06386b.htm
  English martyr, b. 1553-4; d. 1606.

• 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.

• Garnier, Julien

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06389a.htm
  Jesuit missionary, born at Connerai, France, 6 January, 1642; d. in Quebec, 1730.

• 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.

• Garzon

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06390a.htm
  Suffragan diocese of Popayan in the Republic of Colombia.

• Gaspare del Bufalo, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06390b.htm
  Founder of the Missionaries of the Most Precious Blood, died 1837.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gasser von Valhorn, Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06392a.htm
  Austrian sculptor, b. 22 Nov., 1816 at Prägraten, Tyrol; d. 28 Oct., 1900.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gatianus, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06392d.htm
  First bishop of Tours, d. 301.

• Gau, Franz Christian

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06393a.htm
  Architect and archæologist, b. at Cologne, 15 June, 1790; d. at Paris, January, 1854.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gaudentius, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06393c.htm
  Successor of St. Philastrius as bishop of Brescia. Gaudentius died c. 410.

• 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).

• 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.

• Gaudiosus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06395a.htm
  Bishop of Tarazona (Turiasso), Spain; died about 540.

• 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).

• 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.

• Gaume, Jean-Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06398b.htm
  French theologian and author, b. at Fuans (Franche-Comté) in 1802; d. in 1879.

• 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.

• Gaza

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06399c.htm
  A titular see of Palaestina Prima, in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gebhart, Emile

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06402b.htm
  French professor and writer, b. 19 July, 1839, at Nancy; d. 22 April, 1908.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gelasius I, Pope Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06406a.htm
  An assessment of his pontificate. He died in 496.

• Gelasius II, Pope

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06407a.htm
  Reigned 1118-1119.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Genealogy of Christ

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06410a.htm
  Offers the genealogy according to Saint Matthew and Saint Luke.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Genesareth

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06413a.htm
  This is the name given to the Lake of Tiberias in Luke 5:1.

• 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.

• Genevieve, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06413f.htm
  Patroness of Paris, d. 512.

• 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".

• Genga, Girolamo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06415b.htm
  A painter, born at Urbino in 1476; died at the same place, 1551.

• Genicot, Edward

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06415c.htm
  Moral theologian, b. at Antwerp, Belgium, 18 June, 1856; d. at Louvain, 21 February, 1900.

• Gennadius I, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06416a.htm
  Patriarch of Constantinople, d. 471.

• 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.

• 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".

• 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.

• Genoa

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06419a.htm
  Archdiocese in Liguria, Northern Italy.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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)

• Genuflexion

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06423a.htm
  To genuflect, to bend the knee.

• 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.

• Geoffrey of Dunstable

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06427b.htm
  Abbot of St. Alban's, d. at St. Alban's, 26 Feb., 1146.

• Geoffrey of Monmouth

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06428a.htm
  Abbot of St. Alban's, d. at St. Alban's, 26 Feb., 1146.

• 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.

• Geography and the Church

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06447a.htm
  Explains the nature of this science and the course of its evolution.

• 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.

• George Beesley, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02389a.htm
  English priest and martyr, died 1591.

• 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.

• 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.

• George Haydock, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07159a.htm
  Biographical article on the English priest and martyr. Includes bibliography.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• George Pisides

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06456b.htm
  A Byzantine poet who lived in the first half of the seventh century.

• 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.

• George, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06453a.htm
  Long, scholarly article on St. George, martyr, patron saint of England.

• 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".

• Georgia

  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.

• Georgius Syncellus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06463a.htm
  The author of one of the more important medieval Byzantine chronicles, died after 810.

• Gerace

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06464a.htm
  Diocese in the province of Reggio in Calabria (Southern Italy).

• Gerald, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06464b.htm
  English monk, Bishop of Mayo, d. 731. Brief biography.

• Geraldton

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06464c.htm
  Diocese in Australia, established in 1898, suffragan of Adelaide.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gerard Majella, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06467c.htm
  Tailor, Redemptorist, called "Father of the Poor," d. 1755.

• 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.

• Gérard, Abbot of Brogne, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06465b.htm
  Soldier turned monk, d. 959.

• Gerard, Archbishop of York

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06466b.htm
  Date of birth unknown; died at Southwell, 21 May, 1108.

• Gerard, Bishop of Toul, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06466a.htm
  Biography of this tenth-century bishop.

• Gerard, John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06466c.htm
  Jesuit; born 4 October, 1564; died 27 July, 1637.

• Gerard, Richard

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06467b.htm
  Confessor; born about 1635; died 11 March, 1680.

• 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.

• Gerasa

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06469a.htm
  A titular see in the province of Arabia and the Patriarchate of Antioch.

• Gerberon, Gabriel

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06469b.htm
  A Benedictine of the Maurist Congregation. (1628-1711)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Germain, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06473a.htm
  Monk, Bishop of Paris, d. 576.

• Germain, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06472b.htm
  A married lawyer, rather worldly, became Bishop of Auxerre, d. 448 or 450. Biography.

• 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.

• 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.

• German Literature

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06517a.htm
  History starting with the pre-Christian period to 800 A.D.

• 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.

• Germanicopolis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06475b.htm
  A titular see in the province of Isauria, suffragan of Seleucia.

• 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.

• Germanus I, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06484a.htm
  Patriarch of Constantinople, defender of the veneration of ikons, d. 733 or 740.

• Germany

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06484b.htm
  History divided by time periods, beginning with before 1556.

• 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.

• Germia

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06529b.htm
  A titular see of Galatia Secunda, a suffragan of Pessinus; mentioned by Hierocles in the sixth century.

• Gerona

  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.

• Gerrha

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06530b.htm
  A titular see in the province of Augustamnica Prima, suffragan of Pelusium in the Patriarchate of Alexandria.

• Gerson, Jean de Charlier de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06530c.htm
  Biographical article. Examines his view of conciliarism, and considers his mystical theology.

• Gertrude of Aldenberg, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06533a.htm
  Longtime abbess of a Premonstratensian convent near Wetzlar. She died in 1297.

• 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.

• Gertrude of Nivelles, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06533c.htm
  Benedictine abbess of a double monastery, d. 659.

• Gertrude the Great, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06534a.htm
  Benedictine, mystic, author, d. 1301 or 1302.

• 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.

• Gervaise, Dom François Armand

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06535b.htm
  Discalced Carmelite, b. at Paris, 1660; d. at Reclus, France, 1761.

• Gervase of Canterbury

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06536b.htm
  English chronicler, b. about 1141; d. in, or soon after, 1210.

• 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.

• Gervasius and Protasius, Saints

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06537a.htm
  Martyred in Milan, probably in the second century.

• Géry, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06537b.htm
  Bishop of Cambrai-Arras, d. between 623 and 626.

• Gesellenvereine

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06538a.htm
  German Catholic societies for the religious, moral, and professional improvement of young men.

• 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.

• Gesta Romanorum

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06539b.htm
  A medieval collection of anecdotes, to which moral reflections are attached.

• Gethsemane

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06540a.htm
  The place in which Jesus Christ suffered the Agony and was taken prisoner by the Jews.

• 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.

• Gezireh

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06541b.htm
  Seat of two Catholic residential sees, one Chaldean, the other Syrian.

• 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.

• 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.

• Ghent

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06542c.htm
  Comprises the whole territory of East Flanders, one of the nine provinces of Belgium.

• 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.

• Ghiberti, Lorenzo di Cione

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06544a.htm
  Sculptor; b. at Florence about 1381; d. there, December, 1455.

• Ghirlandajo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06545a.htm
  Florentine painter; b. 1449; d. 11 Jan., 1494.

• Ghislain, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06547a.htm
  Hermit in Belgium, confessor, died c. 680.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gibail and Batrun

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06548b.htm
  A Maronite residential see.

• Gibault, Pierre

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06548c.htm
  Missionary, b. at Montreal, Canada, 1737; d. at New Madrid, about 1804.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Giberti, Jean-Pierre

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06549c.htm
  Canonist; b. at Aix, Provence, in 1660; d. at Paris in 1736.

• 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.

• Gideon

  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.

• Giffard, Bonaventure

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06551a.htm
  Bishop, born at Wolverhampton, England, 1642; died at Hammersmith, Middlesex, 12 March, 1734

• Giffard, Godfrey

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06551b.htm
  Bishop of Worcester, b. about 1235; d. 26 Jan., 1301.

• Giffard, William

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06552a.htm
  Second Norman Bishop of Winchester from 1100 to 1129.

• Gifford, William

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06552b.htm
  Archbishop of Reims; b. in Hampshire, 1554; d. at Reims, 11 April, 1629.

• Gift, Supernatural

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06553a.htm
  Something conferred on nature that is above all the powers (vires) of created nature.

• 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.

• Gil of Santarem, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06561b.htm
  Portuguese Dominican, d. 1265.

• 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.

• Gilbert Foliot

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06556a.htm
  Bishop of London, b. early in the twelfth century.

• Gilbert Islands

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06557a.htm
  Vicariate apostolic; comprises the group of that name, besides the islands of Ellice and Panapa.

• Gilbert of Sempringham, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06557b.htm
  Short biography of the founder of the Gilbertines, who died in 1189.

• Gilbert, Nicolas-Joseph-Laurent

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06554a.htm
  Poet, b. at Fontenoy-le-Château, 1751; d. at Paris, 12 November, 1780.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Giles, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06559a.htm
  Also known as Aegidius. Hermit and then abbot in late seventh-century Gaul.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gillis, James

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06560c.htm
  Scottish bishop; b. at Montreal, Canada, 7 April, 1802; d. at Edinburgh, 24 February 1864.

• 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.

• Gindarus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06561c.htm
  A titular see of Syria Prima, in the Patriarchate of Antioch.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Giordani, Tommasso

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06564a.htm
  A composer, b. at Naples in 1738; d. at Dublin, Ireland, February 1806.

• Giordano, Luca

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06564b.htm
  Neapolitan painter; b. at Naples, 1632; d. in the same place, 12 Jan., 1705.

• 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.

• 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.

• Giovanelli, Ruggiero

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06568a.htm
  Composer, b. at Velletri, near Rome, in 1560; d. at Rome, 7 January, 1625.

• Giovanni Dominici, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05112a.htm
  Biography of the Dominican preacher and writer.

• Giovanni Melchior Bosco, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02689d.htm
  Commonly called Don Bosco or John Bosco. Founder of the Salesians, d. 1888.

• Giraldi, Giovanni Battista

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06568b.htm
  Italian dramatist and novelist; b. at Ferrara, Italy, 1504; d. there, 1573.

• Giraldi, Ubaldo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06568c.htm
  An Italian canonist; b. in 1692; d. in 1775.

• Giraldus Cambrensis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06568d.htm
  Biographical article on the medieval ecclesiastic and writer.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Girba

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06570c.htm
  A titular see in the province of African Tripoli.

• Girgenti

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06570d.htm
  The capital of a province in Sicily.

• 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.

• 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.

• Giuseppe Giusti

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06574a.htm
  A poet and patriot; b. 1809, at Monsumano near Pescia, Italy; d. 31 March, 1850.

• Giuseppe Maria Pignatelli, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12082b.htm
  Jesuit priest, novice master, provincial, d. 1811.

• Giuseppe Maria Tommasi, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06573a.htm
  Cardinal, scholar, and author, died 1713.

• Glaber, Raoul

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06574b.htm
  Benedictine chronicler; b. in Burgundy before 1000; d. at Cluny about 1050.

• Glabrio, Manius Acilius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06575a.htm
  Consul at Rome during A.D. 91, with Trajan.

• Glagolitic

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06575b.htm
  An ancient alphabet of the Slavic languages, also called in Russian bukvitsa.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Glasgow

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06577b.htm
  Archdiocese in the south-west of Scotland.

• Glastonbury Abbey

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06579a.htm
  Benedictine monastery, Somersetshire, England, pre-eminently the centre of early Christian tradition in England.

• Glebe

  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.

• Glendalough, School of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06582b.htm
  Founded by St. Kevin.

• 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.

• Gloria, Laus et Honor

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16041b.htm
  A hymn composed by St. Theodulph of Orléans in 810.

• Glory

  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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gloves, Episcopal

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06589a.htm
  Liturgical gloves are a liturgical adornment reserved for bishops and cardinals.

• Gluttony

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06590a.htm
  The excessive indulgence in food and drink.

• Gnesen-Posen

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06590b.htm
  Archdiocese in the Kingdom of Prussia.

• 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.

• Goa

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06602a.htm
  Archdiocese in India.

• 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.

• Goar, Jacques

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06606c.htm
  Dominican and hellenist. (1601-1653)

• Goar, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06606b.htm
  Priest, hermit, d. 649.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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)

• God

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm
  Links to five articles about the subject.

• 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.

• God, Nature and Attributes of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06612a.htm
  Covered as natural reason and faith.

• 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.

• Godard, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06621a.htm
  Benedictine abbot, bishop of Hildesheim, d. 1038.

• Godden, Thomas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06621b.htm
  True name Tylden. Born at Addington, Kent, 1624; died in London, 1 Dec., 1688.

• 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.

• Godeberta, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06623a.htm
  Born in about 640, superior of a convent at Noyon.

• 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.

• 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.

• Godfrey Goodman

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06646a.htm
  Anglican Bishop of Gloucester. (1582-3-1656)

• 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.

• 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.

• Godfrey of Viterbo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06626b.htm
  German writer of the twelfth century.

• Godric

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06626c.htm
  The name of two Abbots of Croyland.

• 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.

• Goffe, Stephen

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06627a.htm
  Oratorian; b. 1605; d. at Paris, Christmas Day, 1681.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• Goldoni, Carlo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06631a.htm
  Brief biography of the Italian dramatist.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gomes De Amorim, Francisco

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06632b.htm
  Portuguese poet, dramatist, and novelist. (1827-1891)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gonsalo Garcia, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06379a.htm
  Biography of the Franciscan martyr born in Vasai.

• Gonzaga, Ercole

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06635a.htm
  Cardinal; b. at Mantua, 23 November, 1505; d. 2 March, 1563.

• Gonzaga, Scipione

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06635b.htm
  Cardinal; b. at Mantua, 11 November, 1542; d. at San Martino, 11 January, 1593.

• 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.

• González, Zeferino

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16041c.htm
  Dominican, cardinal, theologian, and philosopher. (1831-1894)

• Gonzalo de Berceo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636a.htm
  Spanish poet, active between 1220 and 1242.

• Good

  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.

• 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.

• Good Friday

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06643a.htm
  The Friday on which the Church keeps the anniversary of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

• 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.

• 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 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Goodman, Ven. John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06647a.htm
  Priest and martyr; born in the Diocese of Bangor, Wales, 1590; died 1642.

• 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.

• Gordian

  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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gordon, Andrew

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06649b.htm
  Monk and physicist. (1712-1751)

• Gordos

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06651a.htm
  A titular see in the province of Lydia, suffragan of Sardis.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gorres, Johann Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06652b.htm
  Writer and professor of physics. (1776-1848)

• Gortyna

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06654a.htm
  A titular see, and in the Greek Church metropolitan see, of the Island of Crete.

• Gorz

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06654b.htm
  Capital of the Austrian crown-land Görz and Gradiska.

• Goscelin

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06655a.htm
  Benedictine biographical writer. (d. 1099)

• Gospel and Gospels

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06655b.htm
  The word Gospel usually designates a written record of Christ's words and deeds.

• 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.

• Goss, Alexander

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06663a.htm
  Bishop of Liverpool. (1814-1872)

• Gossaert, Jan

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06663b.htm
  Flemish painter; b. about 1472; d. at Middelburg about 1533.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gothic Architecture

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06665b.htm
  History of the style.

• Gottfried von Strasburg

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06680a.htm
  Middle High German epic poet.

• Gotti, Vincent Louis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16041d.htm
  Cardinal and theologian. (1664-1742)

• Gottschalk of Orbais

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06682a.htm
  A medieval theologian; b. about 800, d. after 866, probable 30 October, 868.

• Gottschalk, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06681a.htm
  Wendish prince, considered a martyr, d. 1066.

• 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.

• Goulburn

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06683a.htm
  One of the six suffragan sees of the ecclesiastical province of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gower, John

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06685a.htm
  Poet; born between 1327-1330, probably in Kent; died October, 1408.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gozo, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06687b.htm
  Comprises the island of Gozo in the Mediterranean Sea and the islet of Comino.

• Gozzi, Carlo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06688a.htm
  Italian author, born at Venice, 1720; died 1806.

• Gozzoli

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06688b.htm
  Painter; b. at Florence, 1420; d. at Pisa 1497.

• Grace

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06689a.htm
  Leads to four articles on the subject.

• 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.

• Grace, Actual

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06689x.htm
  A supernatural gift of God to intellectual creatures (men, angels) for their eternal salvation.

• Grace, Controversies on

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06710a.htm
  These are concerned chiefly with the relation between grace and free will.

• Grace, Supernatural

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06701a.htm
  Treatise on this fundamental building block of Christianity.

• 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.

• Gradual

  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.

• Gradual Psalms

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06718a.htm
  Fifteen psalms, namely Psalms 119-133.

• 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.

• 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 distinguished from the formal inscriptions engraved on the tombs of the deceased.

• Graham, Patrick

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06718d.htm
  First Archbishop of St. Andrews and Metropolitan of Scotland, date of birth uncertain; d. 1478.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gran

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06721b.htm
  Located in Hungary.

• Granada

  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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Grand Rapids

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06726a.htm
  Diocese created 12 May, 1882 out of the diocese of Detroit.

• Granderath, Theodor

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06725a.htm
  Known for his monumental labours on the Vatican Council.

• 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.

• Grandmont, Abbey and Order of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06725c.htm
  Abbey and Order in the department of Hte-Vienne, France.

• 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.

• Granvelle, Antoine Perrenot de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06727a.htm
  Named Archbishop of Mechlin in 1559 and cardinal in 1561.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gratian

  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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gratianopolis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06730b.htm
  A titular see in Caesarea Mauretania, Africa.

• Gratius, Ortwin

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06731a.htm
  Humanist; b. 1475 at Holtwick, near Coesfeld, Westphalia; d. at Cologne, 22 May, 1542.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gravina, Dominic

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06733a.htm
  Theologian; b. in Sicily, about 1573; d. in the Minerva, at Rome, 26 Aug., 1643.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Greece

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06735a.htm
  History of the country and church.

• Greek Catholics in America

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06744a.htm
  Includes the history and statistics.

• Greek Church

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06752a.htm
  Details the history and various divisions of the church.

• 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.

• Greek Rites

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06774a.htm
  People who speak of the Greek Rite generally mean that of Constantinople.

• Green Bay

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06777a.htm
  Diocese established 3 March, 1868, from the territory of the Diocese of Milwaukee.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gregorian Chant

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06779a.htm
  Short description and history, with links to more information.

• 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.

• Gregory I ("the Great"), Pope Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06780a.htm
  Biographical article on this Doctor of the Church, d. 604.

• Gregory II, Pope Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06787a.htm
  Also known as Gregory Junior, or Gregory the Younger, d. 731.

• 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 IX

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06796a.htm
  Reigned 1227-1241.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gregory of Nyssa, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07016a.htm
  Bishop, one of the Cappadocian Fathers, d. after 385 or 386.

• Gregory of Rimini

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07018a.htm
  Augustinian theologian, d. 1358.

• 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.

• Gregory of Utrecht, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07021a.htm
  Missionary companion of St. Boniface, and later an abbot, d. 775 or 780.

• 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.

• Gregory the Illuminator, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07023a.htm
  Patron of Armenia. Husband and father, bishop, d. possibly in 337.

• Gregory V, Pope

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06790a.htm
  Reigned 996-999.

• Gregory VI

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06791b.htm
  Eleventh-century antipope.

• Gregory VI, Pope

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06791a.htm
  Reigned 1045-46.

• 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.

• Gregory VIII

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06795b.htm
  Antipope placed upon the papal chair by Emperor Henry V, 8 March, 1118.

• Gregory VIII, Pope

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06795a.htm
  Reigned 1187.

• Gregory X, Pope Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06798a.htm
  Biographical article on this thirteenth-century pope. Includes bibliography.

• Gregory XI

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06799a.htm
  Reigned 1370-1378.

• Gregory XII

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07001a.htm
  Reigned 1406-1415.

• Gregory XIII, Pope

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07001b.htm
  Reigned 1572-1585.

• Gregory XIV, Pope

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07004a.htm
  Reigned 1590-1591.

• Gregory XV, Pope

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07004b.htm
  Reigned 1621-1623.

• Gregory XVI, Pope

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07006a.htm
  Reigned 1831-1846.

• Greifswald, University of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07025a.htm
  The oldest university of Prussia, founded in 1456.

• 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.

• 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.

• Grenoble

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07026b.htm
  Comprises the Department of Isère and the Canton of Villeurbanne (Rhône).

• Gresemund, Dietrich

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07028a.htm
  German humanist; b. in 1477, at Speyer; d. 1512, at Mainz.

• Greslon, Adrien

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07028b.htm
  French Jesuit missionary. (1618-1697)

• Gresset, Jean Baptiste

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07029a.htm
  Born 29 August, 1709; died 16 June, 1777, at Amiens.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Griffin, Martin Ignatius Joseph

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16042b.htm
  Journalist, historian. (1842-1911)

• 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.

• Grillparzer, Franz

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07033b.htm
  An Austrian poet, b. at Vienna, 15 January, 1791, d. 21 January, 1872.

• 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.

• 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.

• Grimmelshausen, Johann Jacob Christoffel von

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07035b.htm
  German novelist of the seventeenth century.

• Gröne, Valentin

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07035c.htm
  Catholic theologian. (1817-1882)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Grosseto

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07039a.htm
  Suffragan diocese of Siena.

• Grosswardein

  http://newadvent.org/cathen/07040a.htm
  A diocese of the Latin Rite in Hungary, suffragan of Kalocsa-Bács.

• Grottaferrata, Abbey of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07040b.htm
  A Basilian monastery near Rome.

• Grueber, Johann

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07041a.htm
  German Jesuit missionary in China and noted explorer of the seventeenth century.

• Grün, Anastasius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07042a.htm
  Pseudonym for Anton Alexander (Maria), Count von Auersperg, a nineteenth-century Austrian poet.

• Guadalajara

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07042b.htm
  Archdiocese in Mexico, separated from the Diocese of Michoacan by Paul III, 31 July, 1548.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Guarda, Diocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07049a.htm
  Province of Beira, Portugal.

• Guardi, Francesco

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07049b.htm
  Venetian painter. (1712-1793)

• Guardian Angels

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07049c.htm
  The lowest orders of angels are sent to men.

• 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.

• 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.

• Guarini, Battista

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07052a.htm
  An Italian poet, b. at Ferrara, 1538, d. at Venice, 7 Oct., 1612.

• Guarino da Verona

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07053a.htm
  A humanist, b. 1370, at Verona, Italy; d. 1460, at Ferrara.

• 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.

• 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.

• Guatemala, Santiago de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07054a.htm
  Archdiocese conterminous with the Republic of Guatemala, in Central America.

• Guayaquil

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07054b.htm
  The capital of the Ecuadorian province of Guayas.

• Gubbio

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07055a.htm
  Diocese of Eugubinensis, in the province of Perugia in Umbria (Central Italy).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Guérard, Robert

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07059a.htm
  Writer, born at Rouen, 1641; died at the monastery of Saint-Ouen, 2 January, 1715.

• Guérin

  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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Guiana

  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.

• 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.

• Guicciardini, Francesco

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07064a.htm
  Biographical article by Edmund G. Gardner on the historian and statesman, who died in 1540.

• Guido of Arezzo

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07065a.htm
  Article with life and summary of his contributions to musical theory and composition.

• Guigues du Chastel

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07066a.htm
  Medieval Carthusian. (1083-1137)

• Guijon, André

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07066b.htm
  Bishop and orator. (1548-1631)

• Guilds

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07066c.htm
  Voluntary associations for religious, social, and commercial purposes.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gunther of Cologne

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07088a.htm
  An archbishop of that city, died 8 July, 873.

• 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.

• Gunther, Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07084a.htm
  Lay brother, penitent, hermit in Bohemia, d. 1045.

• Gurk

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07088b.htm
  A prince-bishopric of Carinthia, suffragan to Salzburg.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gutenberg, Johann

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07090a.htm
  Inventor of printing. (1400-1467)

• Guthlac, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07092a.htm
  Brief biography of this soldier, monk, and hermit, who died in 714.

• 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.

• Guzmán, Fernando Pérez de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07094a.htm
  Señor de Batres; Spanish historian and poet (1376-1458).

• Gyor

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07094b.htm
  A Hungarian see, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Gran.

 

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