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Show GIBBONS 25 YEARS AS A CARDINAL BALTIMORE, May 4. The nationwide nation-wide observances of the golden jubilee jubi-lee of Cardinal Gibbons' ordination to tho priesthood and the twenty-fifth anniversary of his elevation to the qardlrialate have begun. The first anniversary an-niversary ceremony occurred in tho Immaculate Conception church here. The congregation contributed $1,000 to the fund for the erection of the Cardinal Gibbons Memorial hall at tho Catholic unlvorslty in Washington. From now until late in the fall observances ob-servances of the dual anniversary will be held in every church of tho Baltimore archdiocese, and on a certain cer-tain day in October all Catholic churches In the United States will unlto In a celebration In tho cardinal's honor. Cardinal Gibbons was ordained or-dained a priest June 30. 18G1, and on 'the same day twenty-five years ago was elevated to tho sacred college of Popo Leo XIII. Ho will be 77 years old July 23 next. Cardinal Gibbons has expressed uis disapproval of the proposition of Episcopalian ministers to shorten tho Ton Commandments. Tho cardinal's displeasure was forcibly forci-bly expressed while addrossing a lody of confirmants In Immaculato Conception Concep-tion Catholic cnurch. |