The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-10-14

u pacity of vicar apostolic, but then hi
! services are only intermediary betwee
the applicant and the Pope. He has n
control of the bishops and archbishop
outside of his See. II he had, perhap
the Holy Father would not have deemes
Unnecessary to send Monsignor Satolii t,
this country. Cardinal Gibbons supper
comes from oathedraticum, percentag,
Z Of the 9 Elections not made for specific
4 purposes in the churches of his See Eli
income was not increased by his success
+ sion to the cardinalate. Ill.,.
After the ceremonies connected with
/ his promotion to the priestly rank Of car.
ldinal in this country were completed
i Cardinal Gibbons went to Rome When
the nominee to the Office of cardinal is in
i Rome, he goes on a specified day. to the
Il Papal palace and receives the red beretta
from the Pope. Atterward, in q public
+ consistory, he receives the red hat. But
| il the candidate is absent, being pre-
vented by just cause from visiting Rome
at il 81 IL time, the beretta isssent to him in
charge of Papa| .llfa;Ss.ste laS. and and noble
! guard. Upon receiving it the cans.sii.d1ate
is obliged to swear that within year he
will visit the tombs of the apostles, on
which occasion he receives Che red hat.
| This much had, of course, been done
BY, Cardinal Gibbons before he went to
Rome. When he arrived in the Holy
City on chosen day, the red hat was
! placed upon his head by Pope Leo XIII.
amid grand pontifcal mass and other
splendid ceremonies participated FL by
the Sovereign Pontiff, the Sacred Col
lege. the ecclesiastical and lay members
Of the Court of the Holy See, the Noble
Guard, the Guard Palatlne, the Swiss
Guard, the Carbineers, and multitude
LOT specially y-inyited guests, the whole
forming magnificent panorama of pomp
and stateliness we'll beftting the grand
and noble monument OF architectural art
| Id which it occurred
When he went to Rome after being
| made @ cardinal and after the Roman
ceremonies, he visited Orleans, Lyons,
| Avignon, the home of the exiled Popes;
/ Nantes, where the principal institution
Ettts tire Sulpicians is situated; Rheims,
where he visited Cardinal Mores, and
Paris, where he called on Archbishop
Richards. He visited also other places
on the continent, passing through Eng
land and ireland, and reaching the
United States in August.
| There can be no doubt that great
measure of the marvellous influence
which Cardinal Gibbons wields, not only
among the Catholic of his own diocese
and those ali over the land, but even
among Frotestants, springs from the
aecetic character of this man of God. He
is veritable moHK in his mode Of life.
He allows himself no relaxation or pleas
ure, no cessation from work, no shirking
of the humblest duty which attaches to
the office of the priesthood, except brisk
walk of about two hours every afternoon.
An anecdote concerning this character
istic fits very we'll at this spot Soon
after his reception of the beretta num-
Der of Baltimore gentlemen determined
to raise 9 fund for the purchase oif 2 com
plets equipage and the maintenance Ct
the horses and hire of the coachman.
The movement, of course, could not be
kept entirely secret, and news of it
reached the cardinals ear. He sum
moned the gentleman at the head of the
kindly undertaking and told him he
would not hear of it. "Give the money
to some charitable institution" he said,
''I can walk. I like walking
/ While as Father Gibbons he presided
over the small country parish of Elkridge,
near Baltimore, an incident occurred
which gave him large measure of local
fame. Smallpox broke Gu in the village,
and general exodus Immediately fol
lowed. An old negro man at the point
of death was deserted by his family, who
left him neither food nor medicines.
Father Gibbons heard Of che case, hast
ened to the bed side of the dying man
and remained with him to the last Nor
was this all. No one. could be procured
to carry the corpse to the grave. Father
Gibbons, seeing no alternative, deter
mined to act as undertaken as we'll as min
lister. He obtained coffin, took it to the
house, put the body IN it himself. dragged
it as we'll as he could to the grave, and
there performed the ceremonies Of the
Church.
His career as, vicar of North Carolina
was filed with occurrences equally note
worthy, but tf q humorous rather than a
pathetic nature He still talks with zest
| about his all-day rides on horseback
through the pines of North Carolina, of
nights spent in the fea-infested log cabins
Of the negroes, where even his colossal
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