The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-26

the same time, is testimony of our
affection for you.
Moreover, beseeching God to favor
ably regard your suppEcations, we en-
| power you. in our name, on the dav
of your jubilee, at the solemn sacri-
| fee, to bless those present, announc-
ing a plenary indulgence to be gained
| by following the usual conditions: and
as a pledge of heavenly rewards and
as proof of our own affection for you.
beloved son, we lovingly in the Lord
impart to you and yours the APOSTOLIC
benediction.
Given at Rome, at st. Peters. on
this fourth day of September, in the
year of our Lord, one thousand nine
hundred and eighteen, and the fifth
of our pontificate
BENEDICT PIP XIV"
| The celebration was to have taken
place in the historic Cathedral of
Baltimore last Sunday 1t was planned
to have present most notable as
semblage of the hierarchy. clergy and
people from all sections of the coun-
try. The ceremonies as arranged
would have opened with Solemn Pom
ttfical Mass celebrated by the JubiIari-
an in the Cathedral at $50 o'clock in
the morning. At this service the Most
Rev. George W Mundelein. D. D.,
Archbishop of Chicago, was to have
preached the jubilee sermon. In the
evening there was to have been Pom
tifical Vespers with the Most Rev. Ed
ward J. Hanna, D. D., Archbishop of
San Francisco, in the pulpit.
On account of the prevailing condi-
tions, it was necessary to pass the
jubilee day with the mere mention Of
the program arranged for the occa-
sion.
The jubilee celebration in the famed
Cathedral of Baltimore would have
marked another notable religious GER
emony in the life of Cardinal Gibbons
to be observed in that edffice. In the
Cathedral parish Cardinal Gibbons
was born, July %, 1884. When he was
ten years old he was taken to Ireland
where he received his preliminary ed
ucation, but in 1S48 he returned to the
! United States. Seven years later he
entered st. Charles College. Nd, and
Athen St. MaFy's College, Baltimore. He
was ordained to. the Holy Priesthood
June 80, 1861, in the Cathedral Of Bal
timore, by the Most Rev. Francis P.
Kenriek, d. D., then Archbishop OF
Baltimore. The Cardinal was first as
signed to st. Patrick's Church and
then to ST. Bridgets Church, Canton,
near Baltimore. Subsequently he was
named assistant at the Baltimore
Cathedral and secretary to Archbishop
Spalding. Then he was selected to
organize the new vicariate-apostolic
in North Carolina and on August IL.
1868, he was consecrated Bishop of
Adramyttum Four years later, on
July 80, he was transferred to the See
of Richmond. May 20, 1877, the pres
ent Cardinal was appointed co-adjutor
Archbishop of Baltimore and upon the
death of Archbishop Bayley the fol-
lowing October, he was named to sue
ceed him.
He received the PaIlium, February
10, 1878.
Ten years later the Holy Father.
Leo XIII, selected him TO preside over
the Third Plenary Council of Balti-
more. This was after he had been
named Cardinal Priest, his elevation
to the Sacred Cardinalate having
taken place on June z, 1886.
The influence of Cardinal Gibbons
i has been worldwide. His well known
work, Faith of Our Fathers" which
has run through many editions, has
been translated into every European
language and has been the means of
leading thousands of converts on both
sides of the Atlantic into the Catholic
Church.