Later Life and Death
He resigned as Baltimore's archbishop on April 2, 1974, after twelve years of service. In a stroke of cruel luck, he was never able to participate in a papal conclave—he was the last cardinal to turn eighty prior to the August 1978 conclave, at which, by Pope Paul's decree, cardinals over eighty were excluded.
Shehan died in Baltimore at age 86, and is buried in the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen.
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