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Show CARDINAL GIBBONS AT 76 I Jamos, Cardinal Gibbons, who recently colo-.ttlZFS. colo-.ttlZFS. "rated tho seventy-sixth anniversary of nls birth, '8 notC(' ni"orS churchmen and Is head of tho Ro-SfU Ro-SfU V man Catno" hierarchy In tho United Statos. VW Ho wns l,orn ln Ba,t,moro Dut at an oarly ago r,!wd. 1J Vv". Wns takcn by n,B ParoI,t8 t0 tno,r formor homo I MffSf 'ftty'', ) ,n ,rolanJ. whoro his education bogan. Upon cK'i ll V M returning to tho United Statos ho lived for a M IfV W,1,l ln Now 0r,onnSi 110 studied first at St. W f9L i I Charles college and later at St. Mary's seminary vfot J$Mtl Biltlmoro, and In 18C1 ho was ordalnod to tho lLiv'CSSp W priesthood. In a short tlmo ho was mado private jY socrotary to Archbishop Spalding and clmncollor SsmiMT ot 1,10 archdiocese. In 18C3 ho was raised to tho gSrMmnf oplscoputo and ln 1877 was created coadjutor WI'fl$BKf!wlEtJ id archbishop of Baltimore A fow months later ho Buccecded to tho sco, and on Juno 30, 188G, ho wns Invested with tho InBlgnla of cardinal. Cardinal Gibbons presided at the third national council of tho church, hold In Baltimore In 1881. Ho hns written books and pamphlets on religious subjects and Is notod for his char-ltablo char-ltablo work. In tho courso of a gonoral conversation with tho cardinal recontly, tho subject of dlvorco camo up and ho at onco oponod up on It with all his batteries. bat-teries. Tho ovils of dlvorco aro over uppormost In his thoughts. "Dlvorco Is n canker which Is eating Into the very vitals of our life," ho said In tho Interview, In which ho also urged young men to enter politics. "Society our wholo civilization uprenrs Itself upon tho sanctity of tho home nnd the unity of tho family. Whon you attack ho family you attack government Itsolf. And government to protect and porpotuato ltBolf must oxpungo from Its statutes the criminal divorce laws which tho best of our Hfo abhors. |