At this site, on July 23, 1834, was born Americas first Prince of the Church,
James Cardinal Gibbons.
Although world-renowned for the influence and profoundness of his thought he was always the parish priest striving for the salvation of . . . — — Map (db m208811) HM
On South 3rd Street (U.S. 74) at Dock Street, on the right when traveling south on South 3rd Street.
Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, 1886-1921. Installed as vicar apostolic of North Carolina (1868-72) at St. Thomas Church ½ bl. W. — — Map (db m28725) HM
It was here that Archbishop James Gibbons of Baltimore was notified personally by the Papal Nuncio in 1886 that he had been made a Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII; only the second appointment in the history of the United States of America. — — Map (db m469) HM
