Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-25
FUNERAL WILL BE MARKED
 BY IMPOSING CEREMONIES

Baltimore, March 24.-James Cardin- al Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore. and senior prelate of the Catholic church in the United States, died at 11.SS o'clock this morning. passing away so. quietly that even his nurse, a. nun, could not be sure that it was the end She had seen the change that betokened it,A but 1t was slight, almost inceptible. and five minutes passed while she lean- X ing,
 Then from the house where he had sliv.. ed and worked. in the shadow of the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. went forth the. news that he had died.
 His grave will be in a niche in the crypt under the high altar of the ca thedral. A slab of marble carved with an inscription in Latin will mark his resting place. Above this vault. behind whose south wall lie the six archbfshops of Mary 1 land who preceded him. is the sanctua ry or the cathedral to which Cardinal Gfb- oons' parents brought him as a baby to be baptized. where he was Nconsecrat- l ed a bishop, where he was later con- secrated an archbishop. and where on June 30. 1886 he was invested with the robes of the cardinalate.
 1 The death of tihe cardinal in the midst of Holy Week devotions at the cathedral. will not affect the servicas there through Good Friday and Holy Saturday and the dawn of Easter the body of the cardinal will lie in his own room where he died. Or Easter Sunday n1ght it will be moved to the cathedral. | to lie there throughout the masses of Monday. Tuesday and wednesdav. where his people may see him for the last time through the high reouienn mass that will be his funeral on IThurs- day and from there to be borne to ifs niche in the crypt
 At the funeral will gather the greatest company of churehmen avet assembIed in the United States. In the mass of .eiegrams and cable<rams that mem bers of the cardinals household Rent ar over the world today were messa pes tr l0u nlshops, If archbishons and co,,nt. less misignori and priests everywhere
 Two cardinals may come to Balti more-Cardinal O'Connell from Roston and Cardinal Begin, from Canada. r RsMonsignor John Bonzano, ApostoHc' del esate at Washington will pontifcate at T hing requiem mass on Thursday.
 The funeral procession will conta in the cardinals. the archbishops. the bish ops, the apostolic delegs te and virtually all the priests in the diocese of Mary. land. which includes the District of Co I lumbia.
 Archbishop J. J. c1ennon of the arch diocese of St. Louis, vii preach the funeral sermon. It is noteworthy tha it was Archbishop Glennon who{ preach ed the sermon at Cardinal Gibbons golden jubilee at the cathedral in oc
 tober. 1911.
 When, the cardinals death spreat through the city rapidly and the mourn
 ing was city-wide, practically all tn,
 courts in the city adjourned when tn
 tolling of the bells announced the car
 dinars death.
 Mayor Rroening called a special join sessien of the city council for o'clocl
 Monday afternoon to take suitable actiol on the cardinals death
 As soon as the news of the cardinal l death reached him the mayor orlare : the bell in the city hall toli:d ss timss n once for each year of the cardinals If, 1 He then directed that the haG be place 0 at half mast on the city hall and othe s municipal buildings and kept SO unt
 after the funeral.