The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-04-02


Unction had previously been admin
istered. The aged Primate yielded his
soul to God. So calm, SO peaceful was
the Cardinals passing, that the Nun
who watched beside him. was hardly
aware that the end had come. She
fixed the time of his death at 11:33
O'Clock, but did not formally announce
it until four minutes. later.
Word of the great Cardinals death
quickly winged it's way through the
city of Baltimore. to Washington, to
every city in the United States and
over the seas. Bishop Corrigan sent
kilograms announcing the melancholy
news to Pope Benedict and to every
Archbishop and Bishop in this cOun-
try. When Mayor Broening of Balti-
more was notified OF it, he ordered
the big bell on the City Hall to be
tOlled eighty-siX times. Judge Cor
ter, jury, lawyers, witnesses, and
spectators were assembled at a trial
in the Supreme Court as the announce
ment came to them
Gentlemen, said Judge Gorter,
the City Hall bell is now tolling the
information of the death of Cardi-
nal Gibbons Out of respect to his
memory we shall all remain silent for
| five minutes
| A hush fell upon the assemblage.
Heads were reverently bowed A hun
.Gred people of every faith stilled
their voices and by outward signs
more eloquent than words paid hon.
age to the soul that had flown.
Messages Pour In.
In the space of a few minutes aft
er the first report of the Cardinals
death had been carried by word of
mouth and by wire through the city
! and country, messages of sympathy
| began to come in a flood TO the arch
iepiscopal residence. BY messenger,
by telephone, by telegraph; from near
and far they came. Governor Ritchie,
Mayor Broening, former Mayor James
| III. Preston, James Gustavus Whitley,
the Belgian Consul, Signor " Roland
Ricci, the Italian Ambassador, and
hundreds of others were quick to give
expression of their coincidence and re-
spect.
| Prominent pastors of Protestant
churches and Rabbis of the Jewish
| synagogues, were among the first TO
send tribute to the Cardinal, and to
mourn his passing.
In the Criminal Court, eulogies of
the Cardinal were delivered by States
l Dnl, ri 7 Tr
Henry Duffy, and Attorney Richard b.
| Tippett, Judge Charles W. Heuisler
and Attorneys Isaac Lobe and Vernon
Cook
John T. Gibbons, brother of Cardi-
nal Gibbons, is seriously i'll at his
home in New Orleans, and word of
the latter's death was not given to
| him. 1t was the Cardinals custom for
many years to visit his brothe, John
annually.
The Funeral.
The remains of the Cardinal, clad
in white miter and purple vestments,
were laid in the modest granite crypt
under the high altar of the Cathedral
following the pontifical Mass of Re
QUEEN sung by the Most Rev. John
| Bonzano on Thursday.
A slab of marble, carved with an
Inscription i'm Latin on the north wall
| of the crypt, marks the last resting
place of all that is earthly of Ameri-
cas- greatest charchman.
| Above the vault, in which lie the
bodies of six Archbishops of Balti-
more. who preceded Cardinal Gibbons,
is the sanctuary of the Cathedral
/ where Cardinal Gibbons parents
brought him to be baptized and where
on June 80, 1886, he was invested with
/ the robes of the Cardinalate.
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