Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-25
|SUCCUMbS At BALTIMORE
RESIDENCE FOLLOWING LONG
ILLNESS IN HIS S7TH YEAR
Pope Cables His Bless
ing; Nation Mourns
Loss; Noted Prelate to
Be Buried Thursday.

Baltimore, March 24.-James
Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop
Of Baltimore and senior prelate
of the Catholic church in the
United States, died at IL ::33
o'clock Thursday morning,
passing away SO quietly that
even his nurse, a Bon Secours
nun, could not be sure that it
was the end. She had seen the
change that betokened it but
it was slight, almost impercep-
tible, and five minutes passed
while she leaned above the
slight, still form, watching.
Then from the house where he had
lived and worked, in the shadow Of the
Cathedral Of the Assumption of the
news that he had died
Grave Niche Under Altar.
His grave will be niche in the
crypt under the high altar of the ca
thedral A slab of marble carved with
an inscription in Latin in the north
wall of the crypt will mark his resting
place.
Above this vault, behind whose south
wall lie the six archbishops of Mary
land who preceded him, is the sanctu-
ary of the cathedral to which Cardinal
Gibbons parents brought him as a baby
to be baptize. where he was consecrated
bishop and an archbishop, and where
on June 80, 1885, he was invested with
the robes Of the cardinalate.
There, too, stands the throne Of the
cardinal. and above the throne will hang
the cardinals hat, symbol of princedom,
in the Catholic hierarchy. There it
will hang as lorg as the cathedral
stands.
Will Not Affect Services.
The death of the cardinal in the
midst of holy week devotions at the ca
thedral, will not affect the services
there. Through Good Friday and Holy
Saturday, and the dawn of Easter the
body of Cardinal Gibbons will lie in his
own room where he died On Easter
Sunday night it will be moved to the ca
thedral, to lie there throughout the
masses Of Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday, where his people may see him
for the last time. through the high
c4AIaAA mass Int viii De HIS IuHeTal
on Thursday and from there to be
borne to it's niche i'm the crypt.
At the funeral will gather the great
est company of churchmen ever as
sembled in the United States. In the
mass of kilograms and cablegrams that
members of the cardinals household
sent all over the world Thursday were
messages to 100 bishops. IA arch
bishops and countless monsignors and
priests.
Requiem Mass Thursday.
Two cardinals may come to Balti-
O'Connell from Bos-
ton, and Cardinal Begin, from Canada. |
Monsgnor John Bonzano, apostolic |
delegate at Washington, will pontifi- /
cate at high requiem mass on Thurs |
day.
The funeral procession which will |
include the cardinals, the archbishops. !
the bishops. the apostolic delegate and |
ali the priests in the diocese !
Of Maryland, which includes the dis
trict Of Columbia.
Representatives Of all the church's
orders will be there-the abbots from
the monasteries in robes of white,
brown or black.
Archbishop !. J. Glennon. Of the |
archdiocese of st. Louis. will preach
he funeral sermon. Archbishop Glen
non preached the sermon at Cardinal
Gibbons golden jubilee at the cathe-
lral in October, 1911.
Mourning Is City Wide.
News of the cardinals death spread