"God", Etymology of the Word
Anglo-Saxon God; German Gott; akin to Persian khoda; Hindu khooda.
Gómara, Francisco Lopez de
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.
Gabriel Sionita
A learned Maronite, famous for his share in the publication of the Parisian polyglot of the Bible; b. 1577, at Edden on the Lebanon; d. 1648.
Gabriel, Brothers of Saint
Originally founded by St. Louis Grignon de Montfort in 1705, but it did not spread much till it was amalgamated with one founded in 1835 by Monsignor Deshayes. Vicar-General of Ren…
Gaddi, Agnolo, Giovanni, and Taddeo
Florentine artists, Taddeo being the father of Agnolo and Giovanni.
Gagarin, Ivan Sergejewitch
Of the Russian family which traces its origin to the ancient rulers of Starodub; born at Moscow, 1 August, 1814; died at Paris, 19 July, 1882.
Gagliardi, Achille
Ascetic writer and spiritual director; born at Padua, Italy, in 1537; died at Modena, 6 July, 1607.
Gahan, William
A priest and author; born 5 June, 1732, in the parish of St. Nicholas, Dublin; died there, 6 December, 1804.
Gaillard, Claude Ferdinand
French engraver and painter; b. at Paris, 7 Jan., 1834; d. there, 27 Jan., 1887.
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