Joseph Cardijn
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His Eminence Joseph Cardijn Servant of God |
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| Cardinal-Deacon of San Michele Arcangelo | |
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| In office | 25 February 1965 – 24 July 1967 |
| Predecessor | None: titular church created |
| Successor | Javier Lozano Barragán |
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| Ordination | 22 September 1906 |
| Consecration | 21 February 1965 by Leo Joseph Suenens |
| Created Cardinal | 22 February 1965 by Pope Paul VI |
| Rank | Cardinal-Deacon |
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| Birth name | Joseph Leo Cardijn |
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13 November 1882 Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium |
| Died | 24 July 1967 (aged 84) Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium |
| Previous post | Titular Archbishop of Tusuros (1965) |
| Motto | Evangelizare pauperibus ("To evangelize the poor") |
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| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Title as Saint | Servant of God |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
Joseph Leo Cardijn (13 November 1882 – 24 July 1967) was a Belgian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was the founder of the Young Christian Workers.
Joseph Cardijn was born in 1882 in Schaerbeek, Belgium, the eldest son of Henri Cardijn and Louise Cardijn, née Van Daelen. He lived with his grandparents in Halle until his parents quit their job as caretakers and his father started business as a coal merchant, while his mother opened a café. Both deeply Christian, they agreed to let Joseph continue his studies to become a priest instead of going to work in the factory.
After studying at the College of Our Lady in Halle, Joseph went in 1903 to the Mechelen seminary. On 22 September 1906, he was ordained priest. By then, influenced by his parents and by his fellow priest Adolf Daens, he had decided to spend his life bringing Christianity back to the working class.
He became a teacher in Wavre, and travelled abroad in the holidays, meeting people like Baden Powell and Ben Tillett. In 1912, after being ill, he was appointed to the parish of Laeken near Brussels, where he started creating and improving workers' organizations in earnest. Twice imprisoned during World War I for so-called patriotic activities, he left Laeken in 1919 and devoted his time solely to social work from then on. The same year, he started the "Young Trade Unionists". At first these met resistance from within the Catholic Church, but after a while the organization and Cardijn became accepted, and in fact Cardijn received a blessing from Pope Pius XI in 1925.
In 1924, the name of the organization was changed to "Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne", the Young Christian Workers. JOC grew rapidly throughout the world; its members were often known as "Jocists" (the movement was often called "Jocism"). By 1938, there were 500,000 members throughout Europe; in 1967, this had increased to 2,000,000 members in 69 countries.
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