53 Facts About John Paul I

Pope John Paul I was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City from 26 August 1978 to his death 33 days later.

John Paul I's reign is among the shortest in papal history, resulting in the most recent year of three popes and the first to occur since 1605.

John Paul I remains the most recent Italian-born pope, the last in a succession of such popes that started with Clement VII in 1523.

John Paul I was the first pontiff to have a double name, choosing "John Paul" in honour of his two immediate predecessors, John XXIII and Paul VI.

John Paul I explained that he was indebted to John XXIII and to Paul VI for naming him a bishop and a cardinal, respectively.

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John Paul I was baptised on the day he was born by the midwife because he was considered to be in danger of death.

John Paul I's father agreed and said to him: "I hope that when you become a priest you will be on the side of the workers, for Christ Himself would have been on their side".

John Paul I received his episcopal consecration later that month from Pope John XXIII himself, with Bishops Bortignon and Gioacchino Muccin serving as the co-consecrators.

On 15 December 1969, Luciani was appointed the new patriarch of Venice by Pope John Paul I VI, taking possession of his new archdiocese the following February.

Pope John Paul I VI created Luciani the Cardinal-Priest of San Marco in the consistory on 5 March 1973.

In 1976, Luciani sold a gold cross and pectoral gold chain that Pope John Paul I XXIII had given to him to raise money for disabled children.

John Paul I urged fellow priests in Venice to sell their valuables to contribute to this cause and as a way for them to live simply and humbly.

Pope John Paul I VI died on 6 August 1978, ending a reign of fifteen years.

John Paul I later explained that the double name was taken to gratefully honour his two immediate predecessors: John XXIII, who had named him a bishop, and Paul VI, who had named him Patriarch of Venice and Cardinal.

John Paul I was the first pope to designate himself "the First" with the name.

John Paul I was the first modern pope to speak in the singular form, using 'I' instead of the royal we.

John Paul I initially refused to use the sedia gestatoria until others convinced him of its need to allow himself to be seen by crowds.

John Paul I said that unions like those should not be the same as marriage.

John Paul I reiterated the official views of the church regarding Marxism and Catholicism being incompatible and believed it to be a "weapon to disobey" the Christian faith.

John Paul I forbade those factions that were Marxist from threatening the faith.

John Paul I was a friend to the Muslim people and, as Patriarch of Venice, said to Catholics that faithful Muslims had the "right to build a mosque" to practice their faith in the archdiocese.

John Paul I believed that sainthood was something that all Catholics could achieve if they led a life of service to God.

John Paul I said that by professing love for God, Catholics say: "my God I want to be holy, I will strive to be holy".

John Paul I referred to God as "infinite good" capable of providing for our "eternal happiness" in His love for us.

John Paul I had hoped that the council would highlight "Christian optimism" in terms of Christ's teachings against the culture of relativism.

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John Paul I denounced a fundamental ignorance of the "basic elements of the faith"—it was this point that he wished to focus on as opposed to secularism throughout the world.

John Paul I makes a clear understanding of true and false liberty.

John Paul I says that true freedom comes from God, that God makes man free.

John Paul I continues to say that religious freedom must be freely exercised by the individual.

John Paul I writes that the choice of religion must be a free choice.

John Paul I's book Illustrissimi, written while he was a cardinal, is a series of letters to a wide collection of historical and fictional persons.

John Paul I was well-read, and was known for reading several newspapers each morning, including one from the Veneto region, before beginning his day.

John Paul I was seen by some as an intellectual lightweight not up to the responsibilities of the papacy, although David Yallop says that this is the result of a whispering campaign by people in the Vatican who were opposed to Luciani's policies.

Giuseppe Caprio, the substitute Papal Secretary of State, said that John Paul I quickly accepted his new role and performed it with confidence.

John Paul I had admitted that the prospect of the papacy had daunted him to the point that other cardinals had to encourage him to accept it.

John Paul I refused to have the millennium-old traditional papal coronation or wear the papal tiara.

John Paul I instead chose to have a simplified inauguration mass.

On 29 September 1978, on what should have been the 35th day of his pontificate, John Paul I was found dead in his bed with reading material and a bedside lamp still lit.

John Paul I had probably suffered a heart attack the night before.

John Paul I's funeral was held in Saint Peter's Square on 4 October 1978, celebrated by Carlo Confalonieri.

Falasca confirmed, after interviewing the sisters who found him and documents from the Vatican Secret Archives, that John Paul I died of a heart attack in the late evening hours of 28 September 1978.

John Paul I had made it a practice to have a morning coffee in the sacristy and then go into the chapel to pray before tending to the day's matters.

Marin testified that John Paul I's hands were cold, and she was struck by the darkness of his nails.

John Paul I was still in his pajamas with a few typewritten sheets in his hands.

John Paul I's head was slightly turned to the right and his eyes were partially closed; his glasses rested on his nose.

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John Paul I had suffered a severe pain in his chest for about five minutes around 7:30 pm while reciting the vespers in the chapel with Magee before dinner, but insisted against calling for Doctor Renato Buzzonetti.

Doctor Buzzonetti sent a detailed report to the Cardinal Secretary of State Agostino Casaroli on 9 October 1979 detailing that the episode of pain John Paul I suffered was in the upper part of the sternal region.

Process for the canonisation for John Paul I formally began in 1990 with the petition by 226 Brazilian bishops, including four cardinals.

Pope Francis authorized a decree that recognized the miracle on 13 October 2021; it enabled for John Paul I to be beatified at Saint Peter's Square on 4 September 2022.

Pope John Paul I was the first pope to abandon the coronation, and he was the first pope to choose a double name for his papal name.

John Paul I was the first pope to have a Papal Inauguration and the last pope to use the Sedia Gestatoria.

John Paul I's simplicity was a vehicle for a solid, rich teaching which, thanks to the gift of an exceptional memory and a vast knowledge, he embellished with numerous citations from ecclesiastical and secular writers.

John Paul I watched as the first one, then a second, of his close friends went to the rector, Bishop Giouse Cattarossi, and asked for permission to join the Jesuit order.