John Paul I, whose pontificate lasted just 33 days, will be proclaimed blessed after Pope Francis approved a decree that recognizes a miracle through his intercession, the healing of an 11-year-old Argentine child, as reported by the Vatican on Wednesday.
Italian Albino Luciani, born in 1942, was elected leader of the Catholic Church on August 26, 1978, but ended up dying just over a month later, being one of the shortest-lived pontiffs in history.
The recognized miracle of John Paul I is the alleged cure of an 11-year-old girl in Buenos Aires, which occurred in 2011. The child suffered from severe acute inflammatory encephalopathy and had little chance of surviving, according to the Vatican.
The journalist and one of the members of the team that was postulating the canonization, Stefania Falasca, said in a recent interview with the religious newspaper “Avvenire”, that the medical board that analyzed the case “unanimously pointed out that the cure was scientifically inexplicable”.
The cause in Luciani’s favor was opened in November 2003, 25 years after the pontiff’s death and concluded in November 2017, with the decree signed by Pope Francis, who proclaimed the heroic virtues of John Paul I.
In the same year, the diocesan investigation started in 2016 in Buenos Aires was also closed, in which the miracle performed by the intercession of the former leader of the Catholic Church was examined.
To be declared a saint in the future, however, it would be necessary to prove a second miracle of John Paul I.
John Paul I, whose pontificate lasted just 33 days, will be proclaimed blessed after Pope Francis approved a decree that recognizes a miracle through his intercession, the healing of an 11-year-old Argentine child, as reported by the Vatican on Wednesday.
Italian Albino Luciani, born in 1942, was elected leader of the Catholic Church on August 26, 1978, but ended up dying just over a month later, being one of the shortest-lived pontiffs in history.
The recognized miracle of John Paul I is the alleged cure of an 11-year-old girl in Buenos Aires, which occurred in 2011. The child suffered from severe acute inflammatory encephalopathy and had little chance of surviving, according to the Vatican.
The journalist and one of the members of the team that was postulating the canonization, Stefania Falasca, said in a recent interview with the religious newspaper “Avvenire”, that the medical board that analyzed the case “unanimously pointed out that the cure was scientifically inexplicable”.
The cause in Luciani’s favor was opened in November 2003, 25 years after the pontiff’s death and concluded in November 2017, with the decree signed by Pope Francis, who proclaimed the heroic virtues of John Paul I.
In the same year, the diocesan investigation started in 2016 in Buenos Aires was also closed, in which the miracle performed by the intercession of the former leader of the Catholic Church was examined.
To be declared a saint in the future, however, it would be necessary to prove a second miracle of John Paul I.
John Paul I, whose pontificate lasted just 33 days, will be proclaimed blessed after Pope Francis approved a decree that recognizes a miracle through his intercession, the healing of an 11-year-old Argentine child, as reported by the Vatican on Wednesday.
Italian Albino Luciani, born in 1942, was elected leader of the Catholic Church on August 26, 1978, but ended up dying just over a month later, being one of the shortest-lived pontiffs in history.
The recognized miracle of John Paul I is the alleged cure of an 11-year-old girl in Buenos Aires, which occurred in 2011. The child suffered from severe acute inflammatory encephalopathy and had little chance of surviving, according to the Vatican.
The journalist and one of the members of the team that was postulating the canonization, Stefania Falasca, said in a recent interview with the religious newspaper “Avvenire”, that the medical board that analyzed the case “unanimously pointed out that the cure was scientifically inexplicable”.
The cause in Luciani’s favor was opened in November 2003, 25 years after the pontiff’s death and concluded in November 2017, with the decree signed by Pope Francis, who proclaimed the heroic virtues of John Paul I.
In the same year, the diocesan investigation started in 2016 in Buenos Aires was also closed, in which the miracle performed by the intercession of the former leader of the Catholic Church was examined.
To be declared a saint in the future, however, it would be necessary to prove a second miracle of John Paul I.
John Paul I, whose pontificate lasted just 33 days, will be proclaimed blessed after Pope Francis approved a decree that recognizes a miracle through his intercession, the healing of an 11-year-old Argentine child, as reported by the Vatican on Wednesday.
Italian Albino Luciani, born in 1942, was elected leader of the Catholic Church on August 26, 1978, but ended up dying just over a month later, being one of the shortest-lived pontiffs in history.
The recognized miracle of John Paul I is the alleged cure of an 11-year-old girl in Buenos Aires, which occurred in 2011. The child suffered from severe acute inflammatory encephalopathy and had little chance of surviving, according to the Vatican.
The journalist and one of the members of the team that was postulating the canonization, Stefania Falasca, said in a recent interview with the religious newspaper “Avvenire”, that the medical board that analyzed the case “unanimously pointed out that the cure was scientifically inexplicable”.
The cause in Luciani’s favor was opened in November 2003, 25 years after the pontiff’s death and concluded in November 2017, with the decree signed by Pope Francis, who proclaimed the heroic virtues of John Paul I.
In the same year, the diocesan investigation started in 2016 in Buenos Aires was also closed, in which the miracle performed by the intercession of the former leader of the Catholic Church was examined.
To be declared a saint in the future, however, it would be necessary to prove a second miracle of John Paul I.