The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-31
Beautiful Liturgy Most I'm pressive Cardinal Laid to Rest In Crypt Under Higl Altar of Cathedral.

Baltimore, Md March 31-In a crypt beneath the high altar of the ancient Grey Cathedral church, hard by the baptismal fount to which his James Cardinal Gibbons, priest, pre- late, patriot. and dean of cardinals in the Roman Catholic church, was laid to his long rest today.
 His entombment with his prede- cessors in the archiepiscopal office among them John Carroll, friend of Washington and of Franklin-came at the close of requiem solemn with the liturgy which has grown up throughout the centuries, and perfect al which ushered in the ceremony to the recessional which moved out of the church after the sepulchre had been closed with a marble slab.
 At the conclusion of the solemn se:y:ce in the cathedral proper, at ble assemblage of ecclesiastics ever gathered together in America, there was brief pause. The pa1Fbearers carried a catafaque to his niche in the crypt beneath the chanceL A stiffness, deeper than all that had gone before pervaded the vast edif1ce was broken, only when the voice of Bishop Corrigan, auxiliary to the dead cardinal and now administrator of the archdiocese, was heard in-
 
 nal repose of the dead prelate.
 A great churchman and great American had gone to his long sleep.
 In the city of his birth his long he found his repose within the walls of the cathedral where he not only was baptised but where also he was raised to the priesth ood, where he was consecrated bishop and arch bishop and where for 35 years he haS presided nrinnP nf the church.
 Throughout the impressive cere- mony the delicately fragile body of the venerable dead reposed on a pur- pie catafalque, vested as a bishop for the celebration of mass Upon his head was the mitre and about his slight shoulders fell the purple chaus- able. Below the chausabIe showed the-red of the cardinalta- His feet were encased in soft purple slippers and at the foot of the bier lay the ceremonial red hat which now will be suspended above the tomb of the dead prelate. there to hang until disinte- grated by the hand of time On either side of the catafalque burned three candles, while a seven branched candleabrum of sacred significance stood at the head
 The Pontifcia1 Mass or Requiem began at 10. Long before that hour a throng which numbered thousands surrounded the mourning Draper Cathedral into which presently nov ed the long procession of clergy and hierarchy. The last solemn requiem for the dead Cardinal was attended chiefly by the hierarchy and priests of America and the distinguished representatives of municipal, state and national governments as well as by members of the diplomatic corps and their staffs from Washington.
 Earlier services has been especially set aside for the children of the Archdiocese, the men and women of the religious orders and for the laity.
 Cardinal Gibbons only brother, John J. Gibbons of New Orleans, was unable to be present at the funeral. Archbishop Shaw who came from New Orleans brought word that MT. Gibbons, bowed by the weight of his S2 years was completely prostrated. Although the seating capacity of the cathedral is great it would have af- forded accommodations for only a small fraction of the throng which assem- bled outside long before the hour set for the services
 Dp the broad aisle of the cathedral to the sa anctuary with its sable draped altar. past the bier of the dead card inal. the long procession wended it's way as the great organ pealed out the solemn tones of the funeral march.
 First came the cross bearer, fol- lowed by the Seninarsans, from St. Mary's who later sung the Gregorian Chants which Cardinal Gibbons had done so much to revive. Then came the priests from the Baltimore Arch diocese as we'll as the clergy from afar
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