Barbara, 
I don't know much about Latin, but it looks like gladio is latin for sword (a form of gladius) and your motto was "God and sword" (I've absorbed a bit from working in a church library).  Hopefully someone else can confirm this.

Melissa Martinez
Librarian, Bishop O'Rourke Library
St. John's Catholic Newman Center 
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  OK, I have looked and looked and can't seem to figure this out.  I know it will be appallingly easy for those folks out there who actually took Latin, but please take pity on me and help anyway.

   

  I am trying to translate the motto on the insignia for Mount Sinai's affiliated hospital unit in World War II, the Third General Hospital.   The words are "Deo et Gladio".  I have my guess on what I think it means, but since I am using this in a public display, I would actually like to be correct.

   

  Any help would be appreciated!

   

  Barbara

   

  Barbara J. Niss

  Mount Sinai Archives

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