The Washington times., 1904-07-23
CARDINAL GIBBONS
IS 70 YEARS OLD
Prelate Spends Birthday at
Southampton, l.. |.
NO CEREMONIES MARK DAY
Born in Baltimore in I634-Spent His
BoyhoOd in Ireland-Studied
in Maryland.

BALTIMORE, July 23.-Cardinal Glib
bons will spend his SEVENTEEN birthday
which is today. at Southampton, L. l.,
where he has been since the first of the
week and where he is visiting friends
No preparations for the observance Of
the anniversary have been made at the
arch-episcopal residence here in view of
his eminence's pronounced aversion to
anything approaching ostentation.
Born in Baltimore on July 20. 1884.
Cardinal Gibbons has spent the greater
part Of his life here. and while his &C.
clesiastical duties have claimed all Of
his time and attention he has been close
~ identified with the life of the city.
His simplicity Of manner, his simple
dignity and unaffected kir Cliness have
won for him the love and esteem of men
and women In every walk of life, with
out regard 70 their religious affiliations,
and his influence has been strongly felt
in every movement that has been con-
cerned with civic betterment,
Spent Boyhood in Ireland.
He was taken by his parents in his
boyhood to Ireland, where he received
his elementary education. Returning TO
Baltimore when he was seventeen, haV-
ing felt vocation to the priesthood, he
was entered al St Charles College. Ell
| licott City After finishing his CLASH
| cal course here he prosecuted his philo-
| sophical and theological studies at st.
Mary's Seminary, on North Paca Street
and was ordained to the priesthood in
the cathedral at the age of twenty
June 30. 1861.
| After five years pastoral work at ST
| Patrick's Church, Broadway. and St
| Bridget's Canton, he was called TO the
I q. fhGGrl1 CnNrGf1TV ~ hnr
! Spalding. retaining that position for the
next two years. During the sessions OF
| the Plenary Council Of 1857, he attract
| ed the favorable attention OF The MANY
and painstaking diligence with which
| he discharged the duties of vice-chan-
| Cellor OF that body.
| On August l6, 1858, he was consecrateC
at the Cathedral Bishop Of Adramythun
| in partibus iEtdelium and Vicar o
| North Carolina, and presided over this
| diocese for four. years, during which
time he wrote The Faith Of Oar Faith.
| ers.' the book that has gone through
| almost as many editions as its author
| Is years old today.
Appointed Coadjutor.
on the death OF Bishop McGin IN 1s7.
the Cardinal Bishop Gibbons-was
| transferred to Richmond. Five years
later he returned 10 Baltimore, having
/ been appointed COaQJutoT, with the F1gAl
! Of succession, to Most Rev Jane.
| Roosevelt Bayley. Archbishop Of Balti-
more. Archbishop Bayley died sOOr
| afterward, and his coadjutor succeeded
| TO the responsibilities Of his Office tht
! ceremony of investiture being solemn.
| lied at the Cathedral in February. 1915
/ Having attracted the favorable motto,
1 OF the Pope while on a visit to Rome il
| 1888. ne was appointed % preside o. q
/ the third Plenary Council, which met 81
| Baltimore the next year. The acts an,
! DEGREES of this important council wer.
| approved by the POntif, who shortly
lafterward. as a mark Of his favor. raise
| the presiding archbishop to the cardi
| nalate.
| The new cardinal selected June 90
| 1886. the twenty-fifth anniversary Of hi
| ordination to the priesthood, as the &c
! CASTOR Of the formal iuvestiture wi1
/ the rank and insignia OF q member O
| the Sacred College. The following win
| ter Cardinal Gibbons visited Rome ant
! on St. Patrick's Day, 1887. he received
1 the red hat from the hands Of the Pon
/ tiff On the Feast OF the AnnunCiation
| eight days later. he was installed IN hi
| titular church. Santa Maria TrastaveTe