Josef Wendel was born in 1901. He was ordained a priest in Rome in 1927. After being bishop of Speyer from 1943 to 1952, he became archbishop of Munich in 1952. In 1953 he was made a cardinal with the title of Santa Maria Nuova. He organized the International Eucharistic Congress in Munich in 1960 (which, as I just read, set important signs for the liturgical reform...).
Joseph Kardinal Wendel died an unexpected and sudden death on new-years-evening 1960, after giving the new-year homily.
Installation as archbishop of Munich. Next to Wendel we see Aloysius Muench, the papal nunzio to Germany.
The consistory of 1953. Cardinal Wendel is right in front.
Official portrait
With Pope Pius XII
With Pope John XXIII
In the winter cappa
With Cardinal Feltin, archbishop of Paris
Giving his blessing
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