Bernardin, Joseph Cardinal (1928 – 96)
Price: $65.00
Description:American cardinal; archbishop of Chicago. Formerly archbishop of Cincinnati. Created a cardinal in 1983 by Pope St. John Paul II.
SP – Signed Photograph: 4″x6″ color, litho print image. Signed on the image but other writing on the reverse in the hand of the collector.
Bernardin died tragically from pancreatic cancer. Two weeks before his death, he completed his best-selling book about the end of life and about his own approaching death in particular, called The Gift Of Peace, with the help of his friend and biographer Eugene Kennedy.