Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-31
POMP AND CEREMONY FOR
 FUNERAL OF CARDINAL GIBBONS

Baltimore, March 3o.-The mighty and the lowly united in sorrow, tonight trod softly past the bier of James Cardinal Gibbons. to gaze for the last time on the face of beloved prelate.
 Tomorrow morning with all pomp and ceremony and the singing of a Gregorian chant never before heard outside the Sistine chapel in Rome. the church will bury her dead. The apostolic delegate at Washington, two fellow members in the college of cardinals, archbishps and bish- ops, archabbots and abbots, secular clergy and clergy belonging to the orders -all will be massed in the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the final ma; 4 There, too, will be diplomatic repre- sentatives of the Catholic countries of the world, while officials of nation, state and city will attend the service, mourning a fellow citizen. The public ceremony ended, the body of the cardinal later in the day will be car | ried to the cathedral crypt. unopened since the burial of Archbishop Spalding | in 1872. There, in marked contrast to the 1 imposing spectacle of the mass, the body will be laid to, rest in the white marble | tomb with the simplest of ceremonies and in the presence of only closest rela- tives and dearest friends.
 | For three days the body of Cardinal Gibbons has rested in state under the great gold dome of the cathedral in whict
 for so many years he ministered to man, kind. Daily an army of mourners, 30 900 strong. has filed in and out of tn, gray stone edifice overlooking the city but today, from morning until nearly midnight, great double column, blocki long, sought entrance to the cathedral. l In nf1a
 the usual noise and hustle of an Ameri can community, but around the cathedra
 all was quiet The shuff1e of feet on tn, sidewalk was almost the only soun,
 hearu as the mourners pressed slowi, forward along streets leading to tn
 church. Tomorrow this silence vii spread all over the city, when in respons to proclamations by governor and mayor all traffic and every activity will :. b
 stopped for one minute when the mas
 begins at 10 o'clock. Inside the cathedral the mourners, en .ltorirg by pairs moved down fki{ centfs aisles, splitting at the purp1e-covered ble
 and passing out by side doors at rikh
 and left It was a living ~" formin ; continuously. around the dead but tn only sounds were the click of heels o
 tiled floor and now and then a sup
 pressed sob.
 Women in silks and satins, women i , ltattered dresses. men of war and men c peace, the strong and tbe broken, move
 silently past the candle-lighted cata . falque, on which rested the frail remain of churchman Of whom it once was sai
 that he had just enough body to contai a soul. Dressed in his purple robes. hi
 archbishop's mitre upon his head, and
 crucifix clasped ia his gloved hands la
 the American born of simple Irish imm \ grants who by his own efforts and 1T
 domitable will rose to be a prince of th = church. In death as in life his face r, n tained the serene calm of prelate an o scholar.
 l. Tonight the silence of the cathedr, e was broken by chanting of seminariar
 and diocesan clergy as the office of ti e dead was sung. Presiding was Bishc O. B. Corrigan, vicar-general of the di, '- cese, who earlier in the day had eel .- bratedsthe mass for the laity.
 e The ceremony was attended by churC l. dignitaries and lay delegates from g 's parts of the United States and Canad
 who began arriving in Baltimore tods
 for tomorrow's assemblage. Amor
 churchmen of higher rank due to arri' IS late today were Archbishop John Bong
 no, apostolic delegate; William Cardin le O'Connell of Boston and Louis Cardin l. Begin of Canada. Archbishop Bonzal 1t will be the celebrant tomorrow