Pope Luciani towards beatification, Pope Francis recognizes "heroic virtues"
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October 13, 2021 The Church will soon have another Pope among the saints: John Paul I, Albino Luciani, the 'short' Pope who remained on the throne of Peter for only thirty-three days. During the audience granted to Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Pope Francis authorized the same Congregation to promulgate the Decrees concerning the "miracle attributed to the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God John Paul I (Albino Luciani)" , born on 17 October 1912 in Forno di Canale, (now Canale d'Agordo, Italy) and died on 28 September 1978 in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican.
The recognized miracle is the healing that took place on 23 July 2011 in Buenos Aires, of an eleven-year-old girl suffering from "severe acute inflammatory encephalopathy, refractory malignant epileptic disease, septic shock" and now dying: the clinical picture was very serious, characterized by numerous daily epileptic seizures and a septic state of bronchopneumonia. The initiative to invoke Pope Luciani had been taken by the parish priest of the parish to which the hospital belonged, to which he was very devoted. The Venetian Pontiff is therefore now close to beatification and now he is only waiting to know the date, which will be established by Francis.
The healing of a girl in desperate conditions
"It is a miracle that took place in Argentina, about ten years ago. At that time there was a little girl, - the postulator told the Vatican media - today a girl of almost twenty, who was healed in extraordinary circumstances from very serious neurological problems, in practically desperate conditions ".
"Even today - says Stella - I have seen videos that portray her while she walks, while she talks, and we see a girl of almost twenty who is well. We owe it to the faith of those who prayed around this person when she was sick. an event that certainly has extraordinary characteristics, because we got busy on a medical level, but above all there was a night, a long moment of prayer, of intercession, which is what ultimately qualifies an event of this kind " .