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John Paul I, the "Smiling Pope", becomes "blessed".
Pope Francis today proclaimed Pope Albino Luciani "blessed": elected on August 26, 1978, he died at the age of 65, after only 33 days of pontificate.
Twenty-five thousand people attended today's ceremony in St. Peter's Square, despite persistent rain. Candela Giarda, the young Argentine woman from Paraná, who was dying in 2011 from a very serious encephalitis, could not be present. A priest told her mother to pray to John Paul I, and the next day the girl's health improved
Albino Luciani was a kind and loving pope: as Pope Francis said: «With his smile, Pope Luciani managed to convey the goodness of the Lord. It is beautiful a Church with a cheerful and smiling face, that never closes its doors, that does not harden hearts, that does not complain or harbour resentments, that is not angry or impatient, that does not appear harsh or suffer by nostalgia for the past».
He was the last Italian pope, until now, and his pontificate was one of the shortest in history. According to the official version, his death was due to a heart attack, but it was the subject of numerous theories, and remains one of the "mysteries" of the Vatican.