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	God - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm Links to five articles about the subject.
	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.
	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 I ("the Great"), Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06780a.htm Biographical article on this Doctor of the Church, d. 604.
	Gregory XIII, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07001b.htm Reigned 1572-1585.

	Grace - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06689a.htm Leads to four articles on 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.
	Gospel and Gospels - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06655b.htm The word Gospel usually designates a written record of Christ's words and deeds.
	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.
	Germany - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06484b.htm History divided by time periods, beginning with before 1556.

	God, Nature and Attributes of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06612a.htm Covered as natural reason and faith.
	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.
	Gregory VIII, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06795a.htm Reigned 1187.
	Gregory XVI, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07006a.htm Reigned 1831-1846.
	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 IV, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06789b.htm Reigned 827-44.
	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 X, Pope Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06798a.htm Biographical article on this thirteenth-century pope. Includes bibliography.
	Gregory VI, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06791a.htm Reigned 1045-46.
	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.

	Greek Church - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06752a.htm Details the history and various divisions of the church.
	Greece - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06735a.htm History of the country and church.
	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.
	Gregory XV, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07004b.htm Reigned 1621-1623.
	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 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.
	German Literature - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06517a.htm History starting with the pre-Christian period to 800 A.D.
	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.
	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.
	Gabriel the Archangel, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06330a.htm One of the three archangels mentioned in the Bible.

	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.
	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.
	Guilds - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07066c.htm Voluntary associations for religious, social, and commercial purposes.
	Geography and the Church - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06447a.htm Explains the nature of this science and the course of its evolution.
	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.

	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.
	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 IX - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06796a.htm Reigned 1227-1241.
	Gutenberg, Johann - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07090a.htm Inventor of printing. (1400-1467)
	Glasgow - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06577b.htm Archdiocese in the south-west of Scotland.

	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.
	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.
	Genuflexion - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06423a.htm To genuflect, to bend the knee.
	Ghent - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06542c.htm Comprises the whole territory of East Flanders, one of the nine provinces of Belgium.
	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.

	Greek Rites - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06774a.htm People who speak of the Greek Rite generally mean that of Constantinople.
	Gothic Architecture - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06665b.htm History of the style.
	Guardian Angels - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07049c.htm The lowest orders of angels are sent to men.
	Gerson, Jean de Charlier de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06530c.htm Biographical article. Examines his view of conciliarism, and considers his mystical theology.
	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.

	George, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06453a.htm Long, scholarly article on St. George, martyr, patron saint of England.
	Gluttony - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06590a.htm The excessive indulgence in food and drink.
	Gaeta - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06333a.htm Archdiocese in the province of Caserta in Campania (Southern Italy).
	Gran - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06721b.htm Located in Hungary.
	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).

	Gregory V, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06790a.htm Reigned 996-999.
	Gregorian Chant - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06779a.htm Short description and history, with links to more information.
	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.
	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.
	Gubbio - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07055a.htm Diocese of Eugubinensis, in the province of Perugia in Umbria (Central Italy).

	Glastonbury Abbey - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06579a.htm Benedictine monastery, Somersetshire, England, pre-eminently the centre of early Christian tradition in England.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Gregory the Illuminator, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07023a.htm Patron of Armenia. Husband and father, bishop, d. possibly in 337.

	Gregory XI - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06799a.htm Reigned 1370-1378.
	Grace, Controversies on - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06710a.htm These are concerned chiefly with the relation between grace and free will.
	Gervasius and Protasius, Saints - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06537a.htm Martyred in Milan, probably in the second century.
	Gregory VI - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06791b.htm Eleventh-century antipope.
	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.

	Grace, Actual - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06689x.htm A supernatural gift of God to intellectual creatures (men, angels) for their eternal salvation.
	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".
	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.
	Gelasius I, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06406a.htm An assessment of his pontificate. He died in 496.
	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.

	Gallienus, Publius Licinius Egnatius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06366a.htm Roman emperor; b. about 218; d. at Milan, 4 March, 268.
	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.
	Grace, Supernatural - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06701a.htm Treatise on this fundamental building block of Christianity.
	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.
	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.

	Giraldus Cambrensis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06568d.htm Biographical article on the medieval ecclesiastic and writer.
	Gerard Majella, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06467c.htm Tailor, Redemptorist, called "Father of the Poor," d. 1755.
	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.
	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.
	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.

	Georgius Syncellus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06463a.htm The author of one of the more important medieval Byzantine chronicles, died after 810.
	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.
	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".
	Ghirlandajo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06545a.htm Florentine painter; b. 1449; d. 11 Jan., 1494.
	Ghiberti, Lorenzo di Cione - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06544a.htm Sculptor; b. at Florence about 1381; d. there, December, 1455.

	Gorz - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06654b.htm Capital of the Austrian crown-land Görz and Gradiska.
	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.
	Gangra - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06377b.htm A titular see in the province of Paphlagonia.
	Gottschalk of Orbais - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06682a.htm A medieval theologian; b. about 800, d. after 866, probable 30 October, 868.
	Guarini, Battista - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07052a.htm An Italian poet, b. at Ferrara, 1538, d. at Venice, 7 Oct., 1612.

	Glendalough, School of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06582b.htm Founded by St. Kevin.
	Galway and Kilmacduagh - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06373a.htm Diocese in Ireland; an amalgamation of two distinct ancient sees.
	Giordano, Luca - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06564b.htm Neapolitan painter; b. at Naples, 1632; d. in the same place, 12 Jan., 1705.
	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.
	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.

	Gelasius II, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06407a.htm Reigned 1118-1119.
	Guadalajara - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07042b.htm Archdiocese in Mexico, separated from the Diocese of Michoacan by Paul III, 31 July, 1548.
	Galloway, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06370a.htm Situated in the southwest of Scotland.
	Gabriel Possenti, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06330c.htm Passionist student, d. 1862.
	Granvelle, Antoine Perrenot de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06727a.htm Named Archbishop of Mechlin in 1559 and cardinal in 1561.

	Gregory VIII - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06795b.htm Antipope placed upon the papal chair by Emperor Henry V, 8 March, 1118.
	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.
	Gift, Supernatural - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06553a.htm Something conferred on nature that is above all the powers (vires) of created nature.
	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.
	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.

	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.
	Gloves, Episcopal - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06589a.htm Liturgical gloves are a liturgical adornment reserved for bishops and cardinals.
	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.
	Gillis, James - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06560c.htm Scottish bishop; b. at Montreal, Canada, 7 April, 1802; d. at Edinburgh, 24 February 1864.
	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.

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

	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.
	Gregory of Nyssa, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07016a.htm Bishop, one of the Cappadocian Fathers, d. after 385 or 386.
	Godfrey of Viterbo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06626b.htm German writer of the twelfth century.
	Gradual Psalms - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06718a.htm Fifteen psalms, namely Psalms 119-133.
	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.

	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.
	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).
	Gyor - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07094b.htm A Hungarian see, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Gran.
	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.
	Gaudentius, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06393c.htm Successor of St. Philastrius as bishop of Brescia. Gaudentius died c. 410.

	Galvani, Luigi - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06371c.htm Physician, b. at Bologna, Italy, 9 September, 1737; d. there, 4 December, 1798.
	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.
	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.
	Grand Rapids - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06726a.htm Diocese created 12 May, 1882 out of the diocese of Detroit.
	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.

	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.
	Genoa - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06419a.htm Archdiocese in Liguria, Northern Italy.
	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.
	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.
	Goa - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06602a.htm Archdiocese in India.

	Gerace - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06464a.htm Diocese in the province of Reggio in Calabria (Southern Italy).
	Guido of Arezzo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07065a.htm Article with life and summary of his contributions to musical theory and composition.
	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.
	Goscelin - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06655a.htm Benedictine biographical writer. (d. 1099)
	Gotti, Vincent Louis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16041d.htm Cardinal and theologian. (1664-1742)

	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.
	Geoffrey of Monmouth - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06428a.htm Abbot of St. Alban's, d. at St. Alban's, 26 Feb., 1146.
	Grillparzer, Franz - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07033b.htm An Austrian poet, b. at Vienna, 15 January, 1791, d. 21 January, 1872.
	Garcilasso de la Vega - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06381a.htm Spanish poet. (1503-1536)
	Gargara - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06384c.htm A titular see in the province of Asia, suffragan of Ephesus.

	Geraldton - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06464c.htm Diocese in Australia, established in 1898, suffragan of Adelaide.
	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.
	Guérard, Robert - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07059a.htm Writer, born at Rouen, 1641; died at the monastery of Saint-Ouen, 2 January, 1715.
	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.
	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.

	Giffard, Bonaventure - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06551a.htm Bishop, born at Wolverhampton, England, 1642; died at Hammersmith, Middlesex, 12 March, 1734
	Grandmont, Abbey and Order of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06725c.htm Abbey and Order in the department of Hte-Vienne, France.
	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.
	"God", Etymology of the Word - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608x.htm Anglo-Saxon God; German Gott; akin to Persian khoda; Hindu khooda.
	Giles, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06559a.htm Also known as Aegidius. Hermit and then abbot in late seventh-century Gaul.

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

	Gaddi, Agnolo, Giovanni, and Taddeo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06332b.htm Florentine artists, Taddeo being the father of Agnolo and Giovanni.
	George Haydock, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07159a.htm Biographical article on the English priest and martyr. Includes bibliography.
	Girgenti - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06570d.htm The capital of a province in Sicily.
	Goar, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06606b.htm Priest, hermit, d. 649.
	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.

	Glabrio, Manius Acilius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06575a.htm Consul at Rome during A.D. 91, with Trajan.
	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.
	Gabala - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06328a.htm A titular see of Syria Prima.
	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.

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

	Giovanni Melchior Bosco, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02689d.htm Commonly called Don Bosco or John Bosco. Founder of the Salesians, d. 1888.
	Guthlac, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07092a.htm Brief biography of this soldier, monk, and hermit, who died in 714.
	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.
	Genealogy of Christ - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06410a.htm Offers the genealogy according to Saint Matthew and Saint Luke.
	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.

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

	Gennadius I, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06416a.htm Patriarch of Constantinople, d. 471.
	Gamaliel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06374b.htm Famous Pharisee and Rabbi.
	Gnesen-Posen - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06590b.htm Archdiocese in the Kingdom of Prussia.
	Guigues du Chastel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07066a.htm Medieval Carthusian. (1083-1137)
	Germain, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06473a.htm Monk, Bishop of Paris, d. 576.

	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.
	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.
	Gozzi, Carlo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06688a.htm Italian author, born at Venice, 1720; died 1806.
	Garesché, Julius Peter - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06384a.htm Soldier