Word: mechlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Joseph Ernest Cardinal Van Roey, 87, Primate of Belgium since 1926 and the third prince of the church (after Cardinals Tardini and Canali) to die within eight days; after a long circulatory illness; in Mechlin, Belgium. A lifelong political activist known to his flock as "the Iron Bishop," Cardinal Van Roey excommunicated World War II Belgian quislings, unsuccessfully opposed the abdication of ex-King Leopold, and denounced with equal fervor his nation's prewar fascists and postwar socialists...
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