The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-06-03
Fifty Years Since Gibbons Entered
Priesthood, Also Twenty fifth
Anniversary of Car
dipalate
COMMEMORATE EyfNT TUESDAY
Church and State to Honor Him at
Baltimore--Though in Seventy.
Seventh Year, Gibbons Is
Still Robust.

Baltimore, Nd, June 3.-If the
Fifth Regiment Armory in this city
was as large as Madison Square Car
den il could not accommodate the
crowd of persons who have applied for
tickets of admission to the jubilee SER
vices i'm honor of Cardinal Gibbons
next Tuesday afternoon. The celebra-
tion is to commemorate the fftieth an
niversary of the ordination OF Cardinal
Gibbons TO the priesthood and the
twenty fifth anniversary of his cardi-
nalate.
The committee on arrangements,
which includes churchmen Of all creeds
plans to make the celebration national
nors of the various states. mayors of
cities and other persons of prominence
in every section of the country have
been invited to participate President
Taft and ex-President Roosevelt will
head the list of speakers. Others who
are expected to deliver addresses are
Chief Justice White of the Supreme
Court of the United States, Vice Pres
dent Sherman. Speaker Champ Clark,
Governor Crothers of Maryland, Mayor
Preston of Baltimore. and Bishop John
Gardiner Murray of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese Of Maryland.
Celebration Purely Civic.
The celebration next Tuesday is to
be of purely civic character and en-
tirely distinct from the ecclesiastical
jubilee services to be held next fall
and in which noted dignitaries of the
Roman Catholic church throughout the
world will participate. The present
demonstration is designed as a recog-
milton of the influence which Cardinal
Gibbons has exercised for high ideals
In citizenship and patriotism.
The years Of life have told lightly
upon Cardinal Gibbons. and to look
at him one would not imagine that he
is i'm his seventy seventh year. Never
what can be termed robust, a frugal
husbandry of his physical powers has
more than atoned for what nature did
not bestow.
His Eminence was born i'm this city
July %, 1884 of Irish parents. During
his boyhood he was taken to Ireland,
where he received the elements of a
liberal education. on returning to the
United States it was determined by his
parents to consecrate him to the serv-
ice of God, and he entered st. Charles
College. Maryland. where he graduated
with distinction in 1857. Thence he
went to st. Mary's Seminary, where,
after taking the usual course of theol-
ogy and philosophy, he was ordained
a priest June g. 1861, by Archbishop
Kenrick.
Distinguished Career.
Father Gibbons was at once assigned
to duty, and hard duty at that time,
i'm the city of Baltimore, serving first
as an assistant priest at St Patrck's s
Church East Baltimore. under the fa-
nous James Dolan. In 1868 lie was
appointed vicar apostolic of North
Carolina. He remained four years in
North Carolina and displayed such re-
markable administrative abilities that
on the death of Bishop McGill he was
transferred to Richmond, Va, where he
was installed Bishop in 1872 His ad-
ministration in Richmond was marked
by practical results of the most i'm
portant character. In 1877 Bishop
Gibbons was appointed coadjutor with
the right of succession TO the late
Archbishop Beyley of Baltimore He
was installed archbishop at the ca
thedral in this city February 10, 1873.
In 1887 he received the red hat of the
cardinalate in Rome at the hands of
Pope Leo XIII.
The same energy. zeal and great ex-
ecutive ability which characterized
Cardinal Gibbons labors I'm other
spheres have been displayed I'm the
more exalted and responsible Office
which he holds at present He is one
of thu most democratic of men-plain
unostentatious and distinguished for
good sense i'm everything he does. He
is extremely charitable. and his income
does not meet the demands upon IL.
Preacher and Author.
AS a preacher Cardinal Gibbons is
always learned and interesting and Of
ten eloquent. His sermons he prepares
in advance. but he is also a good ex-
tempore orator. Having been so Ions
accustomed to figuring In public affairs
and conducting the great functions OF
the church. he is never fiurried OF
nervous but when he rises to make an
address is composed and fluent
AS an author, the Cardinal holds q
high rank i'm the literature OF hii
church. and his Faith OF our Faith.
ers' is regarded by eminent scholars
and divines Of every creed as a master.
piece Of logic and literary excellence
With all his learning and attainments