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Show TO AMERICA'S FIRST CARDINAL. Plans are being arranged by Archbishop Farley and the clergy of St. Patrick's cathedral for a celebration cele-bration of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Cardinal McCloskey. A solemn pontifical Mass will be offered in the cathedral Thursday morning, March 10, the centenary cen-tenary of his birth. The same evening a meeting under the auspices of the laity will be held in the Catholic club, 320 Central Park South. The entire Diocese will be invited to participate in the cathedral cathe-dral service. Bishops and provincials of the different differ-ent orders will sit in the sanctuary. Although Cardinal McCloskey died a quarter of a century ago, his memory is still green. He wa3 America's first cardinal, New York's only wearer of the red hat, and this country has had only one other member of the Sacred College Cardinal Gibbons. It was Cardinal Gibbons, then Archbishop, who preached Cardinal McCloskey's funeral sermon. The first Cardinal lies buried in the crypt of the cathedral under the high altar, and suspended from the ceiling over it is his red hat, which is to remain there until it has crumbled to dust. Archbishop Farley was for twelve years private secretary to Cardinal McCloskey. In the drawing room at the episcopal residence on Madison avenue is a life-size portrait of his eminence, and in another an-other part of the parlor is a life-size burst. It is likely that there will be a celebration also in Albany, as the Cardinal was for eighteen years bishop of that diocese. |