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CARDINAL GIBBONS
DIES PEACEFULLY
Pre..aiC Was Unconscious FC.
More Than ID HOURS.
WAS IN 9th YEAR

Churchman Succun,bs to Heart At
tack, Result of an Ilress Which
/ Began in December.
I Baltimore, NJ; rrh ~; mes t'ardi-
! nal Gibbons. ar hh~hnp of Baltimore,
ana IrimaIr O. lIlr American Catholic
hierarchy. dird III HE ;trchir,,;>""pal
| Residence after Il prolonged illness.
/ which nIinIy affected his hear. He
N;t~ in his ei:~Euy->ovrnDi YEAR.
I:t,;dr he cHrdinal> brd stood
clr}! lHrnhCT of lis null >,.huld. and
WIt"m il was seen the prelntr had piss
"'j away. lI1r priests fell To their
hi-s.- and began rrriring the prayers
i"r ~. dead
IIr cardinal lars"d into Il <:up"r
Ike previous ny and remained N that
stale Throughout: the night
] ':rIp|rHnr> were ut once SCI, to
I Pope H"nrdict. Mon>4nur John BON
. I;tH". apostolic delegate at Wa>hin9-
tom. and To every rrelHlc of the Amer,
: i'';,n hierarchy. more than Il hundred
il; number. Informing them "f The car
dilrtN< DEATH
Th" chief features of the HrraIIgp-
m:urs for The funeral were ann"unc-
ed The requiem mass will he rclr-
III, Grd Thursday III ten A. NJ nj
/ winch NonSignor H"nZaiI" Will uiiiri-
: ate The intrrment will he in The
! cyypl Imtrr the high altar nf the
c;irIrlrnl. where resi- six of the eight
arrlh:>hnps and bishops who proceed
cd Cardinal Gibbons as the head of
! I,,' Baltimore diocese.
The city ball bell WAS t"lled in re-
Sl,rrt to The cardinals memory when
! word "f his death was sent +" Mayor
! Irn"iiiu@.
For live minutes. Us he city hall
bell tnllvd. Nudge G"rtcr. Il jury. law
yer&, Witnesses and spectators in SUI
! n2I"i"i court. sal mute ou1 of respect
IL tiic memory If the prelatc
Pope EenedicD. who ha: followed the
course Of Cardinal Gibbons illness
with deepest interest and sympathy
sem his blessing rs follows:
Tile Holy Father. invoking heaven
~ blessings md comforts his Emf
uncc Cardinal Gibbons. sends tn him
from The bottom of his heart the
@f"Sl,,Ii henrdicti0n."
Ery Louis X. Srcknry, rector of
tIr cathedral. surrounded 10y members
OF The i"uScEnld and The nursing sis
tiers in attendance upon the cardinal,
impaired The hlcS$in" in behalf of the
pope.
The cardinal, who had been show
Ing pronounced signs of Improvement
ever since his return home. about
January last from Union Mills Md
| where he was taken seriously i'll
early in December. Sufre"c Il relapse
Palm Sunday evening. soon after re-
turning from an automobile ride
III" parents of Cardinal Gibbons,
Thomas and Mary Gibbons. cmigrated
from Ireland To the United States in
tS29. making their home in Baltimore
iIhere The cardinal WAS born. July
%. 1894
| When James was two years old his
parents returned To Ireland. His
| Gather died shortly afterwards. His
mother returned to the United States
with her son. settling in New Orleans,
where the future cardinal received his
early education.
II" WAS grocery clerk from his
fifteenth. 1" his seventeenth year. Then
he trlt the vocation for the priest
mood and entered ST. Charles College,
IN Ellic"tt City. Md, from which he
:, WAS graduated with distinction. He
chen went to st. MaryS Seminary,
| Baltimore, and was 1rGained To the
priesthood i'll 1861, ut the age o! -.
II" WIS assigned !" ST Patrick 5
church. Baltimore. Subsequently he
WIS transferred t" -. Bridget :
church, ut Canton. Md. Later lie Was
summoned by Archbishop Spaldin%. of
H"ltim"r". +" become his private sec
| rotary.
ON August IL, 1868, he Was made
bishop of Adramytm lin partibuS
and Njr;r-apo$t"lic of North Carolina.
Inc work he accomplished IN state,
which then contained comparatively
few Catholics. WAS remarkable. Dur
in@ his four years work in North