sentences:  Suenens was created Cardinal Priest of "S. Pietro in Vincoli" by Pope John XXIII in the consistory of 19 March 1962.Suenens was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1963 papal conclave which selected Pope Paul VI.He also voted in the conclaves of August and October 1978, and finally resigned from his post in Mechelen-Brussel on 4 October 1979 after seventeen years of service.