DEATH OF CARDINAL GIBBONS

New Zealand Tablet, 7 April 1921, Page 18

DEATH OF CARDINAL GIBBONS

His Eminence James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, U.S.A., of. whose death we learnt by cable under date March 23, was born in 1834, at Baltimore, of Irish parentage. He was educated first" in ' Ireland and later, for the priesthood, at St. ■ Charles's College, Ellicott City, and St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore. He was ordained in 1861. Five years later he was Assistant Chancellor to

the Plenary Council of Baltimore, and within 7 years of ordination he was consecrated Bishop as first VicarApostolic of - North Carolina. He was appointed to the See of Richmond in "18727 and went as Coadjutor to Baltimore in succeeding as ninth Archbishop in the same year. , The Third National Council of Baltimore was held under bis presidency in 1884, and in 1886 he was raised to the Cardinalatethe second American Cardinal. His Eminence, whose wearing of the red did nothing to diminish his pride in republican institutions, was the first Cardinal of his country to take part in the election of a Pope, assisting in 1903 at the Conclave which elected Pius X. As the author of Faith of Our Fathers, Our] Christian Heritage, and the Ambassador of Christ he had the rare pleasure of knowing that his writings went forth in a multitude, of editions. He was a welcome ■ visitor and preacher at the Eucharistic Congress of Westminster in 1908. He was at the time of his death the first Cardinal Priest and senior member of the Sacred College by creation.