An autopsy was not performed to confirm the cause of death. In the early morning of September 29, 1978, a nun discovered his lifeless body, sitting on the bed, with his glasses on and some leaves in his hands. It remained very popular in Italy and the rest of the world. The ‘Smiling dad’ left his mark on people’s minds for his simplicity and his taste for simple and informal exchanges, especially with children. I never saw him get impatient with anyone, ”recalled the nun on Friday at a press conference. Sister Margarita Marín, who assisted John Paul I in the papal apartments, remembers a man “kind to everyone.” He “treated his collaborators with great respect, apologizing for disturbing them. With a “great simplicity and a strong pastoral fiber”, John Paul I “humanized the office and simplified everything that was formal”, explained Christophe Henning to the AFP.Īlbino Luciani was born on Octoand was elected as Supreme Pontiff in 1978. Very sensitive to poverty, he also affirmed the importance of giving a “fair wage” for all.
Akin to the current of renewal initiated with the Second Vatican Council, Albino Luciani had participated in its sessions between 19, although he preferred pastoral work to that of the curia. In 1973 he was made a cardinal and entered the Congregation for the Sacraments and Divine Worship. He served as professor and director of the Belluno Seminary before being named bishop of Vittorio Veneto in 1959, and patriarch of Venice ten years later. Trained at the Minor Seminary of Feltre and at the Gregorian Seminary of Belluno, Albino Luciani he was ordained a priest in 1935passing that same year to Rome, at whose Gregorian University he studied philosophy and received a doctorate in theology. The son of a glass manufacturer, he lost his mother at the age of ten his father, Giovanni Luciani, contracted a second marriage with a very devout woman who would be decisive in the child’s religious vocation.
Francis approved in October last year the miracle necessary for the beatification of John Paul IĪlbino Luciani was born on October 17, 1912, in Forno di Canale (today Canale d’Agordo), Italy.
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