Word: gasquet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Author Hackett's Henry is immense. Others who have written biographically of the gigantic, simpleminded, "red-tempered," go-getter king include: Froude (hero worship in magnificent prose); Gasquet (colored with religious emotion); H. A. L. Fisher (fairly, in The Political History of England, vol. 6). And there is the monumental Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, 21 vols., a work of 50 years, deep mine of source material. Author Hackett used these and many another book and record. He worked on his biography over a period of six years. It has the best of material (perhaps...
Died. Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet, 83, one of two English Cardinals,* Librarian of the Vatican; of pneumonia and heart disease; at his residence in the Palace of Saint Calixtus, Rome. Great in erudition, Cardinal Gasquet had spent 22 years revising the Vulgate Bible, a task for which he wished 50 years...
...purpose of Cardinal Gasquet's work is merely to correct as far as possible the errors of text which crept into St. Jerome's careful chapters during the centuries when these were circulated by hand and copied by hasty, sometimes stupid scribes. The Cardinal's method is simple, laborious, exact. He commands a commission of twelve Benedictine monks whose assistants hunt the libraries and collections of Europe, dig and sniff in curious corners, and retrieve for him old manu scripts. By judiciously comparing these, of which some 20,000 have now been gathered, it will be possible...
...England. Upon his appointment he set to work in the Palace of St. Calixtus, which Pius V the last sainted Pope, gave to the Benedictine order in 1566. In 1914, Pius X spoke of him to potent Cardinal Merry del Val, then the Papal Secretary of State: "Abbot Gasquet is really the right man in the right place, and we must show him our appreciation. ..." A few months later His Holiness gave Francis Aidan Gasquet permission to wear a Cardinal's red hat.*Last week, tall, genial in his talk and warmly sensitive, looking much older than...
...humility of this utterance is in keeping with the character of Dr. Edgar Johnson Goodspeed. Gracious, energetic, perhaps a trifle over-imbued with the onward-and-upward-and-quickly attitude of his University, Dr. Goodspeed is a type infinitely removed from the majestically conservative Roman Catholic, Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet. They have, however, a common quality. To both belongs the same shining desire; both share the same endless and splendid crusade to discover, scuffled somewhere in a dusty place, God's word in a golden grail...