Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini, known for his service to the poor and the sick in a ministry that began in Rome during World War II and included sheltering Jews from the Nazis, died Nov. 22 at the age of 98.

At the time of his death, he was the only member of the College of Cardinals to have been born in Rome.

From 1947 to 1954, he served Pope Pius XII as one of the liturgical masters of ceremony, taught religion in Rome public schools and served as the ecclesiastical assistant to the men’s section of Catholic Action.

In 1956, he was named a bishop; he served the Italian bishops’ conference and then became the auxiliary bishop of Rome in charge of the diocese’s health care programs.

In 1985, when St. John Paul II established the first Vatican office promoting Catholic health care, he chose then-Bishop Angelini to lead it. The office became a pontifical council in 1988. St. John Paul made him a cardinal in 1991.

With the death of Cardinal Angelini, the College of Cardinals has 209 members, 113 of whom are under the age of 80 and therefore eligible to vote in a conclave.