When is popes beatification

The Vatican announced that he died of a heart attack, but his sudden and unexpected death sparked decades of speculation and conspiracy theories about what really happened during his final hours. His cause for canonization formally opened in November , 25 years after his death, and was formally submitted to the Vatican in October Around that same time, according to Falasca, the Diocese of Belluno, which is overseeing the beatification cause, concluded its investigation into the miraculous healing of a young girl from Buenos Aires who suffered from a severe form of encephalopathy, a disease that affects brain function, leading to an altered mental state in which the person is confused and acts abnormally.

The case was then presented to a panel of theological experts, who approved of the miracle in May He was The miracle in the case of John Paul I is believed to be the inexplicable healing of an year-old girl in Buenos Aires, according to Vatican media.

The Roman Catholic Church teaches that only God performs miracles, but that saints who are believed to be with God in heaven intercede on behalf of people who pray to them.

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In , when Pope Paul VI released his encyclical Humanae Vitae , declaring the use of the contraceptive pill morally illicit, the Bishop of Vittorio Veneto promoted the document, adhering to the Pontiff's magisterium. Pope Paul VI, who appreciated him, appointed him the Patriarch of Venice in and later made him a cardinal in March Luciani, who chose the word "humilitas" [humility] for his episcopal coat of arms, is a pastor who lived soberly, firm in what was essential in the faith, open from the social point of view, close to the poor and the workers.

He was rigid when it came to the unscrupulous use of money to the detriment of the people, as was demonstrated by his firmness on the occasion of an economic scandal in Vittorio Veneto involving one of his priests.

In his magisterium, he particularly insisted on the theme of mercy. As Patriarch of Venice, he suffered a lot because of the protests that marked the years following Vatican II. In Christmas of , when the factories of the industrial centre of Marghera were occupied, he pronounced words which are still very relevant today. A great communicator, he wrote an acclaimed book entitled "Illustrissimi", which contains letters he wrote to the great personalities of the past with judgments on the present.

For him, catechesis was of particular importance and the need for those who transmit the contents of the faith to be understood by all.