Status: 13.10.2021 2:04 p.m.
Pope Francis has officially recognized a miracle performed by John Paul I. The Vatican announced. This clears the way for the beatification of the “33-day Pope”, who is said to have healed a terminally ill girl.
A few days before John Paul I. could have celebrated his 99th birthday, the way is free for his beatification. Pope Francis arranged for a miracle of the deceased to be recognized, as emerged from a communication from the Vatican.
Healing of a terminally ill girl
According to the media portal “Vatican News”, a terminally ill girl, who was eleven at the time, was miraculously cured in Buenos Aires on July 23, 2011 after the invocation of John Paul I. The initiative to turn to John Paul I for help came from the pastor of the parish to which the hospital belonged.
A miracle is a prerequisite for a beatification. When the beatification will be carried out is still unclear, because Francis first has to set a date for it.
John Paul I was only in office for 33 days
John Paul I was the first Pope to choose a double name. He also broke with Vatican customs in other ways. Until now, as is customary with monarchs, popes have said “we” when they talked about themselves. John Paul I said “I”. He reluctantly used the portable papal throne at the urging of the Curia. And he released the Swiss Guard from kneeling, which had been mandatory until then, in the presence of the Pope.
Albino Luciani, the real name of John Paul I, was born in northern Italy in 1912 and was the son of a socialist worker who had worked as an emigrant in Switzerland for a long time. John Paul I, elected on August 26, 1978, was only in office until his sudden death on September 28, 1978 and therefore went down in church history as the “33-day Pope”.