Pope John Paul I will be blessed for this miracle

Pope John Paul I will be blessed. Papa Francesco in fact, it authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate the decree concerning the miracle attributed to the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God John Paul I (Albino Luciani), Pontiff; born on 17 October 1912 in Forno di Canale, (today Canale d'Agordo) and died on 28 September 1978 in the Apostolic Palace (Vatican City State).

Pope Francis, receiving the cardinal Marcello Semeraro authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate the decree recognizing a miracle attributed to the intercession of John Paul I.

This is the healing that took place on 23 July 2011 a Buenos Aires, in Argentina, of an eleven-year-old girl suffering from "severe acute inflammatory encephalopathy, refractory malignant epileptic disease, septic shock" and now dying. The clinical picture was very serious, characterized by numerous daily seizures and a septic state of bronchopneumonia.

The initiative to invoke Pope Luciani was taken by the parish priest of the parish to which the hospital belonged - Vatican News reports -, to whom he was very devoted. The Venetian Pontiff is therefore now close to beatification and now he is only waiting to know the date, which will be established by Pope Francis.

Born on 17 October 1912 in Forno di Canale (today Canale d'Agordo), in the province of Belluno, and died on 28 September 1978 in the Vatican, Albino Luciani was Pope for only 33 days, one of the shortest pontificates in history. He was the son of a socialist worker who had worked for a long time as an emigrant in Switzerland. Albino was ordained a priest in 1935 and in 1958 he was appointed bishop of Vittorio Veneto.

Son of a poor land characterized by emigration, but also very lively from a social point of view, and of a Church characterized by figures of great priests, Luciani participates in the Second Vatican Council. He is a pastor close to his people. In the years in which the lawfulness of the contraceptive pill is being discussed, he has repeatedly expressed himself in favor of an openness by the Church on its use, having listened to many young families.

After the release of the encyclical Humanae vitae, with which Paul VI in 1968 he declared the pill morally illicit, the bishop of Vittorio Veneto became the promoter of the document, adhering to the magisterium of the Pontiff. Paul VI at the end of 1969 appoints him patriarch of Venice and in March 1973 makes him cardinal. Luciani, who chose the word "humilitas" for his episcopal coat of arms, is a pastor who lives soberly, close to the poor and the workers.

He is uncompromising when it comes to the unscrupulous use of money against the people, as demonstrated by his firmness on the occasion of an economic scandal in Vittorio Veneto involving one of his priests. After the death of Paul VI, on August 26, 1978 he was elected in a conclave that lasted only one day. He died suddenly on the night of September 28, 1978; he is found lifeless by the nun who brought him coffee to his room every morning.