Glory

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Glory may refer to:

• Glory (honor)

Places

• Glory, Georgia, a community in the United States
• Glory, Minnesota, a community in the United States
• Glory, Texas, a community in the United States

Religion

• Glory (religion), in Judeo-Christian religious tradition, the manifestation of God's presence
• Glory, a term in Christian art for a halo surrounding the whole body of a person
• Glory Be to the Father, also known as Gloria Patri, a Christian prayer, a doxology or short hymn of praise to God in various Christian liturgies
• Glorification, term for the canonization of a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church

Optics

• Glory (optical phenomenon), an optical phenomenon produced by light reflected toward its source by a cloud of uniformly-sized water droplets

Music

Film and television

• Glory (1956 film), a film starring Margaret O'Brien, Walter Brennan and Charlotte Greenwood
• Glory (1989 film), a 1989 film depicting the story of a regiment of African-American soldiers in the American Civil War
• Glory (2016 film), a 2016 film about corruption and class differences in contemporary Bulgarian society
• Glory (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Ships

• HMS Glory, the name of various ships of the British Navy
• French ship Gloire, the name of various ships of the French Navy
• London Glory, the name of three successive tanker ships of London & Overseas Freighters
• Carnival Glory, a Conquest class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line

Games

• Glory, the Pacific War counterpart to the Europa series of games
• Glory, a board game designed by Richard Berg published by GMT Games

Other uses

• Glory (comics), a comic book character in the Image Comics universe
• Glory (novel), a 1932 novel by Vladimir Nabokov
• Glory (satellite), an earth science satellite which failed during launch in March 2011
• Glory (sculpture), a 1999 sculpture by Garry R. Bibbs
• Perth Glory FC, an Australian football (soccer) team
• Glory, the ring name of professional wrestler Christie Ricci
• Glory (kickboxing), world-wide kickboxing promotion
• French ship Gloire

See also

Wikiquote has quotations related to: Glory

• All pages beginning with Glory
• All pages with a title containing Glory
• "Glory of Love (Theme from The Karate Kid Part II)", song by Peter Cetera, 1986
• "Glory to the Brave" (song), song by HammerFall, 1997
• Kleos, Greek word for "glory"
• Gloria (disambiguation)
• Glory hole (disambiguation)