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Identifies six martyrs of this name. Article concentrates on an imperial official who suffered in the Diocletian persecution and whose feast is 9 September. His cult was strong in France.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Gal - The sixteenth and twenty-third bishops of Clermont-Ferrand (Auvergne) were both g named Gal, and both are saints. The first St. Gal g was bishop from 527 to 551, and the second, from g 640-650.
• Catholic Encyclopedia: Sts. Gordianus and Epimachus - Roman martyrs under Julian the Apostate. Both died saints in 362. Although they did not die together, saints they are buried together, and the cemetery is saints named after them. Identifies two other martyrs named saints Gordianus, considers several named Epimachus.
• Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Gorgonius - Identifies six martyrs of this name. Article concentrates on an people imperial official who suffered in the Diocletian persecution and whose people feast is 9 September. His cult was strong in France.

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