There are several editions of Gerson's collected works, but the most complete is Opera Omnia J. Gerso- nii, op. et stud. L. Ellies du Pin (Antwerp, 1706, 5 vols, fol.). Vol. i contains a life of Gerson, an essaj'' on the authorship of the Imitation of Christ, a critical cata- logue of bis writings, together with his dogmatical works. Vol. ii contains his treatises on ecclesiastical politj', etc. ; vol. iii, his writings on moral theology ; vol. iv, exegetical writings; vol. v, controversial writ- ings, sermons, etc. Some works are included in this edition which do not belong to Gerson. See Richer, Vie de Gerson; \j'En{imt, J/ist. nj" the Council of Con- stance; Lecuy, Kssai sur Gerson (Paris, 1832, 2 vols. 8vo) ; Schmidt, Essai sur Gerson (Strasb. 1839) ; Tho- massy, Jean Gerson (Paris, 1843, IGmo) ; Faug6re, Eloge de Gerson (Paris, 1837) ; Engelhardt, de Gersonio Mijstim (Erlang. 1843, 4to) ; Illgen's Zeitschrift fur d. hist. Theol. (1833) ; Studien u. Kritiken (1835), p. 278 ; Jourdain, Doctrina Gersonii de theolog. myst. (Par. 1838, 8vo) ; Michelet, Jlist. de France, vol. iv ; Bonnechoso, Biformateurs avant la Ix'eforme, i, IHO; Neander, Ch. Hist. vol. v ; Kcander, I/iston/ of Christian Dogmas, 519,607,612; Mosheim, Ch. //w<!ii,443; })upin,'//M^ of Eccles. Writers, cent, xy-; Hoefer, Npm. Biog. Gene- rale, XX, 283 sq. ; Haso, Ch. Hist. 250, 251 ; Hook, Ec- cks. Biog. v, 306 ; Schwab, J. Gerson, eine Monographic
(Wiirzburg, 1858, 8vo) ; Herzog, Real-Encyldopadie, v, 89 sq.
Gertrude, St., born in 626, was the daughter of Pepin of Landen, majordomo of tlie king of Austrasia, France. She was religiously brought up, and finally entered the nunnerj'of Nivelles, nine miles from Brus- sels, of which she was elected abbess at the earlj' age of twenty. She died there March 17, 659, and that day has since been kept in commemoration of her throughout Brabant. — Ada Sanctoj-um, March 17.
Gertrude, St., was born at Eislel)en, Germanj', and became in 1294 abliess of a congregation of Bene- dictine nuns at Roberdorf. She was thoroughly versed in Latin and the holy Scriptures, but is particularly known for the visionary mj^sticism of her piety. A series of editions of her Insinuationum divinte ^;(V^a?4s exercitia appeared during the 16th and 17th centuries, ilege published an edition in 1664, and in 1676 trans- lated it, together with her biographj', into French. She died in 13.34. Her saint's day is Nov. 15. — Her- zog, Real-Encyldop. v, 100.
Geruphina (XD'^2115), the name of a mountain not ver}"^ far from Jerusalem, mentioned in the Tal- mud {Rosh hash-Shanah, ii, fol. 22, b) as the third sum- mit distant, on which signal-fires were lighted ; held bj' Schwarz to be a prominent peak near the centre of .a mountain-chain called '■^ Ara.pun, about three Eng. miles south of Kalat el-Raba, or Ramoth Gilead" (Pal- est, p. 82) ; but we find no corresponding name in any other modern authority.
Gervaise, Fran9ois-Arjmand, a Trappist monk, was born at Paris in 1660. Having studied under the Jesuits, he then entered among the barefooted Carmel- ites ; but, not finding this reform sufficiently austere to satisfy his love of asceticism, he took the habit of La Trappe in 1695, and insinuated himself so much into the favor of the celebrated abbe De Ranee that he was appointed abbot of La Trappe on the death of Zo- zimus Foisel in 1696. The abl c, however, soon re- pented of his choice, for the new abbot began, by his austerity and intriguing spirit, to fcnient divisions among the monks, and to undo all that De Ranee had done. He soon resigned, and in leaving La Trappe he drew up a long Apology. When his I/istoi~re gcnerale de Citeaux (Avignon, 1746, 4to) appeared, the Bei nar- dines, who were violentlj^ attacked in it, obtained an order from the court against him, and he was arrested at Paris and conveyed to the abbey of Notre Dame des Reclus, where he died in 1755. He wrote La Vie de St.Cyprien (Paris, 1717, 4to) : — La Vie d'Abailard et d'Hiloise (Paris, 1720, 2 vols. 12mo):— ia Vie de St. Irenie (Paris, 1723, 2 vols. 12mo) -.—La Vie de VApoire St. Paul (Par. 1734, 3 vols. 12mo) :—Za Vie de St. Epi- phane (Paris, 17S8, 4to) : — L'hmncur de VigUse dtf inlu contre P. Le Courayer (1742, 2 vols. ISnio). See Rich- ard, Bibliotkeque Sacree ; Hook, Eccles. Eiogr. vol. v ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xx, 330.
Gervaise and Protaise (Geuvashts et Peota- sius), two saints always named together in the Roman martyrology. Ambrose gives an account of them, and calls them the "first martyrs of Milan."' They a])])ear to have suffered martyrdom in the time of Dio- clesian. Many stories are told of the miracles wrought by their '' relics." Their commemoration day is June 19. See Butler, Lives of the Saints, June 19.
Gervase of Cantekbury, a mediajval English chronicler, was born about 1150, and died in the early part of the 13th century. We know but little of his historj'. It appears that he was a monk of the priorj' of Christ's Church, Canterliury, and held the office of sacristan, was present at the burning in 1174 of Can- terbury Cathedral, and watched the erection of the new cathedral, until tlie election of Baldwin as arch- bishop in 1184, when he wrote his account of the de- struction and rebuilding thereof, entitled Tractatus de combustione Dorobornensis ecclesiw. Another work,