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(8 IX 1901-15 X 1989) Fr Gill’s links with the Pontifical Oriental Institute seem to have been forged in the Summer of 1934, while he was on supply in St Walburg’s Preston, immediately after fmishing his theology course: ‘I got a letter from RomI welcoming me to the Staff of the Oriental Institute, which I had never heard of before. Nor had I heard a word from the Provincial, Fr Henry Keane, So I wrote to him to ask about it, and stressed that my knowledge of Greek was minimal. He replied that it would be all right, as he understood that the stan- dards in RomI were very low!’(]) The remote preparation for this appointment began while he was a boy at Leeds Catholic College (run by the Jesuits), where he studied Latin and Greek, though on joining the Society of Jesus (7 IX 1918) he admitted, ‘I can read Latin, but though I have studied Greek, I don’t think I could read it, to be understood or at all fluently’(2). He resumed the study of Greek in 1920 and matricu- lated at London University, taking the Intermediate examination in 1921, and then fitting in the studies necessary for a B.A. (extemal pass degree in five subjects) while also studying the first two years of the Jesuit philosophy course (1923-25). His third year (1925-26) was spent at the Gregorian in RomI, his first contact with that city, and brought him a Ph. D. During theology (1929-33) he studied a little morI New Testament Greek with Fr Cuthbert Lattey, but had few illusions as to his knowledge of the Greek language. Once appointed to the Orientale, he decided to begin with the study of Modem Greek and went off to Athens (1934-36), where he taught himself (■) Interview with John Coventry for Letters and Notices (private publ., British Jesuits) 89 (1988), pp. 375-381. An obituary appeared in the 1990 vol., pp. 54-61. (2)‘Little Life’, Gili papers, Brit. Prov. Archives. OCP 57 (1991) 5-10 6 Joseph A. Munitiz, S.J. both demotic and katharevousa. He retumed to London (passing through the Orientale for the first time) in 1936, and read for the BA Honours course in Latin and Greek, benefitting from the in- spired teaching of Norman Baynes and beginning a life-long friend- ship. A fellow student in those years was Joan Hussey, later Profes- sor Hussey, who became another faithful friend. Throughout all these years Gili had given constant signs of the sharp intuition and tenacity that were to prove formidable assets in his life as a scho¬ lar. Between them Gili and Baynes had agreed that he write a Ph.D. thesis on ‘the development of the Greek language in the first eight centuries, as judged by hagiographical writings’, and when Gili re¬ tumed to the Orientale and began teaching Greek in 1938, he duti- fully began work ‘on this appalling thesis which I had chosen: it was very dulT(3). Excitement was soon to be provided. Gili hap- pened to be in England when war broke out, but he madI his way back to RomI for the start of the academic year, and in 1940 pub- lished his first scholarly article, a spin-off from his doctoral work(4). In the same year, the General sent him back to England with the mission to spread news about the persecution of the Catholic Church in the Third Reich, which Gili did in collaboration with the Minis- try of Information. There followed a bewildering succession of loca- tions: teaching classics in Preston and supervising the games for the boys (‘the first XI didn’t win many matches’), joining the R.A.F. in London as a war chaplain in November, and sailing round the Cape, so that he found himself back in Greece in 1941 (5). Then six months of hair-raising adventures on the mainland and in Crete before the British forces withdrew to Egypt. Later Gili served on various home bases, being sent out to Germany only after the end of the war, ‘when things were very fluid and I didn’t manage to leam any German’ (a constant regret to him). He was demobbed in Sep- tember 1946 and retumed to the Orientale in October to pick up the shattered remnants of his academic career after six years absence. (3) Interview, 5uoted above (notI 1). (4) The Life of Stephen the Younger by Stephen the Deacon: Debts and Loans, OCP 6 (1940), pp. 114-139. (5) J. Gill, Six Months in the Life of an Amateur Chaplain, Letters and Notices 87 (1985), pp.