election, Micara urged the Catholics of Rome to "[v]ote well, vote as Catholics, vote as Romans". He served as a cardinal elector in the 1958 papal conclave that elected Pope John XXIII, and voted in the conclave of 1963 that elected Pope Paul VI. He was called the "Grand Elector" among the Curia because of his influential role in securing the votes of conservative cardinals' for Pope Paul, with whom he was friends, in the latter conclave. Seen as a progressive, the Cardinal attended the first three of the four sessions of the Second Vatican Council in 1962, 1963 and 1964. He died on 11 March 1965 after a long illness in Rome, at age 85, and was buried in the basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva. Honours 1924: Grand Cross of the Order of the White Lion 1925: Grand Cordon Order of Leopold. References External links Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church Catholic-Hierarchy 1879 births 1965 deaths People from Frascati Apostolic Nuncios to Czechoslovakia Apostolic Nuncios to Belgium Apostolic Nuncios to Luxembourg 20th-century Italian cardinals Cardinals created by Pope Pius XII Participants in the Second Vatican Council Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy alumni Pontifical Gregorian University alumni Pontifical Lateran University alumni Cardinal Vicars Members of the Sacred Congregation for Rites Members of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life Pontifical Commission of Sacred Archaeology Pontifical Roman Seminary alumni Grand Crosses 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Grand Crosses of the Order of the White Lion Bishops appointed by Pope Benedict XV