in favor of his son, Baudouin. Van Roey, who had long suffered from a circulatory illness, was administered the last rites and Communion by Bishop Leo Suenens on 5 August 1961. At 6:05 a.m. on the next day, he died at the age of 87. After lying in state for three days in the archiepiscopal palace of Mechelen, his funeral Mass was held on 10 August, and was attended by King Leopold and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, Prime Minister Théo Lefèvre, the ministers of state, the entire Belgian episcopate, and Cardinals Francis Spellman and Bernardus Johannes Alfrink. Van Roey was then buried in the crypt of the Cathedral of Mechelen, next to the vault of Cardinal Engelbert Sterckx, in accord with his explicit requests. See also Catholic resistance to Nazism References External links Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church Jozef-Ernest van Roey in ODIS - Online Database for Intermediary Structures 1874 births 1961 deaths Flemish priests 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Belgium Belgian cardinals Roman Catholic archbishops of Mechelen-Brussels Belgian people of World War II People from Vorselaar Bishops appointed by Pope Pius XI Belgian Roman Catholic archbishops