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Show CARDINAL GIBBONS -PRIEST FIFTY YEARS BALTIMORE, Mr... June 30. In ft little fhrfl at home, where he U at prettent vititing, nod about fifty miles from Baltimore, Cardinal Gibbon thin morning offered up a maet of jhanluh ftirinf la honor of the most momentous event of hi long career. - Today, he completes fifty years of a su-ffesaful pri mt hood and twenty five years as cardinal and nominal head of the Catholic Cath-olic church in the t'nited Mate. It j waa on June HO, IHrtl. that Father (Jib horn, afjer fininhin hia education fori the priesthood at St. Mary 'a aeminary.i wan ordained at Ihe cathedral here by j Archhiahop Kenrick. JuM. twenty-five i years later, June .i", I, the red hat wan conferred on him a I no at the same cathedral This morning the cardinal arone at hts uaiial hour, 6 o'elork, and, with a sin-, gle aiiii.tant, celebrated a low bum with onlv the member of the houaefaoJd : attending. j |