Paul KeenanFinal document completed
The beatification process of the late Pope John Paul I will moved forward in the autumn, it has been announced.
According to the former Vatican Secretary of States Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, speaking during a homily in the late Pontiff’s native Belluno, Italy, on July 20, a necessary document for the process has been completed and will be passed to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints later this year. That document, the posito, which is completed by the postulator of an individual’s cause, Bishop Enrico dal Covolo, rector of the Pontifical Lateran University, had been delayed due to a double-checking of facts contained.
Born Albino Luciani in 1912, the man who would be Pope was ordained in 1935 and elevated as Bishop of Vittorio Veneto in 1958. He was Patriarch of Venice from 1969 until his election as Pope on August 26, 1978. Tragically, Pope John Paul I died on September 28 of that year after just 33 days on the throne of St Peter. He was declared servant of God by St John Paul II in 2003.
A miracle attributed to John Paul I, the curing of an Italian man suffering a stomach tumour, has yet to be approved by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.