Download The Sign, Vol. 1 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Excerpt from The Sign, Vol. 1: A National Catholic Monthly Magazine, 1921-1922 Your approval was grateful to him; he was so simply human, and it won your heart to feel that he accepted your humble friendship. He preached in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, on the occasion of the first centenary of the great Archdiocese. He had outlined his discourse on our evening's walk. If is a pleasure for the Passionist Fathers to pay a deserved tribute to the memory of Cardinal Gibbons, in the first issue of the sign. We are fortunate in having these personal recollections from Father Felix Ward, C. P. Whose singular privilege it was to have enjoyed the friendship and confidence of his Eminence during many years - The Editors. I was intensely interested and knew that his success would greatly depend upon his feeling well. A slight indisposition from which he suffered now and then would mar his effort. Well, he was never 1n better form than on that morning. The elite of the Church were there from many other lands as well as from our own. His Eminence never did better. We were all very happy and proud of Baltimore. In the evening I had occasion to see him at his own request with Fr. George, C. P., who was just leaving for the General Chapter in Rome. I told his Eminence of the joy we felt at his success that day. He was pleased with the little tribute. He would not dissemble it; he was too fine for that; yet who would say that it detracted in the least from the high motive he had in all he did? He simply remark ed that when Cardinal, then Archbishop, Farley, came to request him to preach that sermon, he begged to be excused. He was busy and had some timidity_ in meeting the demand. After the de parture of the Archbishop, his heart smote him and he wired his acceptance. His success he ascribed to a little act of kindness for a friend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.