The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-31
LAST RITES OF
DEAD CARDINAL
Be Held TODAY
Nations from All Parts of World
to Be Represented at
Services.
ARMY OF MOURNERS
PASSED BIER DAILY
Estimated 10000 Persons Have
Visited Cathedral Past
Three Days.
(Ry The Associated eress)

BALTIMORE, Md, 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 the be-
loved prelate.
For tomorrow with all pomp and
ceremony and the singing of the Gre
gorian chant. never before heard out
side the Sistine chapel in Rome, the
church will bury her dead. The apos-
tol1c delegate at Washington, two fell
low members in the church of cardi-
nails, archbishops and bishops, arch
abbots and abbots, secular clergy and
clergy belonging to the order-all will
be massed in the Cathedral of the
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
Mary for the final mass. There, too,
will be diplomatic representatives 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 carried to the cathedral crypt
unopened since the burial of Arch
bishop Spalding in 1872. There, in
marked contrast to the imposing
spectacle of the mass, the body will
be laid to rest in the white marble
tomb with the simplest of ceremon-
les and in the presence of only the
closest relatives and dearest friends.
For three days the body of Cardinal
Gibbons has rested in state under the
great gold dom of the cathedral in
which for so many years he miniStered
to mankind. Daily an army of mourn
ers, 10000 strong, has lied in and
out of the grey stone edifice overlook
ing the city, but today rom morning
until nearly midnight a great double
column blocks long sought entrance
to the cathedral.
In other parts of the city there was
the usual noise and hustle of an
American community, but around the
cathedral all was quiet. The shuttle
of feet on the sidewalk was almost
the only sound heard as the mourners
pressed slowly forward along the
streets leading to the church, Tomor-
row this silence will spread all over
the city when in response to procla-
nations by governor and mayor all
traffic and every activity will be
stopped for one minute when the mass
begins at 10 o'clock.
Inside the cathedral the mourners
found even deeper silence. Entering
by pairs, they moved down the central
aisle, splitting at the purple covered
bier and passing out by side doors at
right and left. 1t was a living ''Y''
forming continuously around the
dead, but the only sounds were the
click of heels on the tiled floor and
now and then a suppressed sob. Wo-
men in silks and satins, women in
tattered dresses, men of war and men
of peace. the strong and the broken.
moved silently past the candle-lighted
catafalque on which rested the frail
remains of a churchman of whom it
once was said that he had just enough
body to contain a soul. Dressed in his
purple robes, his archbishop's mitre
upon his head and a crucifix clasped
in his gloved hands. lay the American
born of simple Irish emigrants who, |
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