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Show CiOIULL BE IH HIS CflTHEDnAL Crypt Under High Altar to Be Gibbons' Last Resting Place PLAN FOR FUNERAL Occasion to Be Greatest Gathering of Kind in United States BALTIMORE:. Md., March 2. Preparations for tho funeral next I Tlrursdav of Cardinal Gibbons, wore approaching completion at the nrch- episcopal residence today. .Meanwhile. I the body of the prelate will remain In the chamber where he died yes-terdny yes-terdny until next Sunday evening. I when It will he taken to the cathedral : .and thoro ll In state until If 1 re- I moved to Its reMlns: place In the crypt under the chanced after the final serv-I serv-I Ice.. Monilgnor Bonanzo. apostolic dele-I dele-I gate at Washington, has been chosen '.to pontificate at the solemn requiem mass on Thursday and Archbishop J. J. Glennon. of St. Louis, who delivered the sermon at Cardinal Gibbons' golden gold-en Jubilee here In 1911. also will preach the funeral sermon. 1 The occasion will cause the greatest great-est gathering of Catholic chureb tnp-nltarles tnp-nltarles and clericy ever witnessed In ! Ihls country Memhers of the diplomatic dip-lomatic corps from Catholic countries represented at Washington and many hlifh national and state officials will attend. GRAVE iv m rr. His grave will bo a niche In the . crypt under the high altar of the ca- I thedrul A slab of marble carved with I an Inscription In Latin In the north wall of the crypt will mark his rest-I rest-I ing place. Above this vault behind whose south wall lie tho six archbishops of Maryland who preceded him, Is the sanctuary of the cathedral to which Cardinal Gibbons' parents brought him as a baby to be baptized, where he was consecrated a bishop, where he was later consecrated an arch-I arch-I bishop, and where on June 30, 188C. he was Invested with the robes of the i cardinalate. There, too. stands the throne of th cathedral and above the throne will i hang the cardinal's hat symbol of Princedom In the Catholic hierarchy. There It will bang while tho cathedral cathed-ral stands CCO N i K1IN I In view of th fact that there are two American cardinals and both In I the east, prominent Baltlmoro Catholics Catho-lics said today they did not anticipate I the creation of a new cardinal for Baltimore to succeed Cardinal Gibbons Gib-bons who died yesterday. According to the usual procedure, the bishops of the Baltimore province will meet In secret ronclavo within two months to select three names for recommendation to the pope for ap-! ap-! polntment as archbishop of Baltimore. The cardinal's throne In tho cathedral Will be divested of Us brilliant red I hangings which will bo replaced by deep purple In anllclpatlon of the coming of a new archbishop. POPE TO SELECT. The new archbishop. It Is understood, under-stood, will be one of the three blHh-ops blHh-ops recommended to the popo, although al-though he Is not required to choose ono of them. Among the prominent eccleslaxtlcs expected to bo suggested for recnm-mendatltj recnm-mendatltj aro Bishop William T Russell, Rus-sell, of Charleston; Bishop Michael j. Curley, of st. Augustine, antl Bishop Thomas J. Shan, rector of the Catholic university. |