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• Glaber, Raoul: Benedictine chronicler; b. in Burgundy before 1000; d. at ...
• Glabrio, Manius Acilius: Consul at Rome during A.D. 91, with Trajan. He belonged to ...
• Glagolitic: (Or G LAGOLITSA ; Slavonic glagol, a word; glagolati, ...
• Glaire, Jean-Baptiste: Priest, hebraist, and Biblical scholar; b. at Bordeaux, 1 ...
• Glanville, Ranulf de: Chief Justiciar of England ; b. at Stratford, Suffolk, ...
• Glarean, Henry: (LORITI) The most distinguished of Swiss humanists, poet, ...
• Glasgow: I. ARCHDIOCESE OF GLASGOW (GLASGUENSIS) Archdiocese in the ...
• Glastonbury Abbey: [G LESTINGABURH; called also Y NISWITRIN (Isle of Glass) and ...
• Glebe: Glebe ( Latin gleba ) originally signified, in common law , ...
• Glendalough, School of: Glendalough (the Valley of the Two Lakes) is a picturesque and ...
• Gloria in Excelsis Deo: The great doxology ( hymnus angelicus ) in the Mass is a ...
• Gloria, Laus et Honor: A hymn composed by St. Theodulph of Orléans in 810, ...
• Glory: This word has many shades of meaning which lexicographers are ...
• Glory Be: In general this word means a short verse praising God and ...
• Glosses, Glossaries, Glossarists: (IN CANON LAW) A gloss (Gk. glossa , Lat. glossa , ...
• Glosses, Scriptural: I. ETYMOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL MEANINGS The modern English word ...
• Glossolalia: (Glossolaly, glossolalia ). A supernatural gift of the ...
• Gloves, Episcopal: Liturgical gloves ( chirothecœ , called also at an ...
• Gluttony: (From Lat. gluttire , to swallow, to gulp down), the ...

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