"Cardinal's Golden Jubilee"
Sermon
By: James Cardinal Gibbons
Date: October 1, 1911
Source: Gibbons, James Cardinal. "Cardinal's Golden Jubilee." October 11, 1911. Reprinted in Gibbons, James Cardinal. A Retrospective of Fifty Years. Baltimore, Md.: Murphy,1916.
About the Author: James Gibbons (1834–1921) was the son of Irish immigrants and born in Baltimore, Maryland. An intelligent and industrious man, he was ordained a Catholic priest in 1861 and rapidly rose up the American Catholic hierarchy. Gibbons was ordained a bishop in 1868, became archbishop of Baltimore in 1877, and was made cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in 1886. A tolerant and gracious man, Gibbons was the most influential American Catholic leader of the early twentieth century.
Introduction
James Gibbons was the eldest son of Thomas and Bridget Gibbons, who had emigrated from Ireland. As immigrants, the Gibbons family...
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