Sunday, December 27, 2009

Famous Irishman - James Cardinal Gibbons


This week's famous Irishman is James Cardinal Gibbons.

James Cardinal Gibbons
(23 July 1834 - 24 March 1921)
was an American prelate, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 until his death. In 1886 he became the second man from the United States to be made a cardinal. He served as Cardinal-Priest for Santa Maria in Trastevere basilica in Rome.

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