cardinal suenens came to the hospital to give him the anointing of the sick not long prior to cardijn's death. on 14 july he lapsed into a coma (also suffering from cardiac weakness); hm king baudouin came for a long bedside visit despite the cardinal not recognizing him due to the severe nature of his illness. he fell into delirium on 15 july, breaking into fragments of a sermon on "populorum progressio" (a document he hailed upon its release). the nurse tending to him felt his pulse on 24 july noticing that the cardinal had died just moments earlier. the then-prince albert ii attended his funeral. pope john paul ii visited his tomb on his visit to belgium in 1985.