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GOAR, JACQUES. - Orientalist of the Order of Preachers, born in Parigi in 1601, died on 23 Sept. 1653. Ordained a priest, he devoted himself to the study of Greek language and literature and, in order to gain a better knowledge of the institutions of the Byzantine Church, travelled to the East, where he was prior of the convent of Chio and where he deepened his knowledge of the customs and religious ceremonies of the Eastern Christians. On his return, he is found in Rome in 1637 as prior of S. Sisto, and then in Parigi in 1642.
GOA, ARCHDIOCESE of - Chapel in which s. Francesco Saverio said Mass. (phot. Fides)During his numerous journeys, he had occasion to consult the manuscripts of various libraries, especially in Parigi and Rome, and of the monastery of Grottaferrata, always remaining in close contact with the scholars of his time Basilio Falasca, Leone Allazio, G. Corcoio, Pantaleone Liguridio, etc. The fruits of his studies include the commentary on the work of G. Codino, De Officiis magnae ecclesiae et aulae Constantinopolitanae (Parigi 1648), and many other works of lesser importance. Nevertheless, G.'s masterpiece remains the edition of the Εὐκολόγιον sive Rituale Graecorum (there 1647); another edition under a new title: there 1676, 2nd ed. Venezia 1730.
BIBL.: E. Renaudot, Collectio liturgicarum orientalium, I, Parigi 1716, p. 360; Quétif-Echard, II, there 1719, pp. 574-75; A. Touron, Histoire des hommes illustres de l'Ordre de St Dominique, V, there 1748, pp. 357-63; L. Delisle, Le gabinet des manuscrits, II, there 1874, p. 245.
Placido De Meester
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“GOAR, JACQUES.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), p. 536. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/goar-jacques.
