![]() The whole town has been given over to Albino Luciani: Statues and memorabilia fill the town’s church and museum, and his childhood home is located just a short walk from the center. The day before I visited, the town had marked the 42nd anniversary of the Pope’s sudden death with a Mass in the town square, celebrated by the local ordinary, Bishop Renato Marangoni of Belluno-Feltre.Īs the beatification drew closer, Canale d’Agordo had become “a small and beautiful Vatican,” Bishop Marangoni observed in his homily, adding that “here everything speaks of don Albino - the church, the piazza, the mountains, this valley.” The main church, town hall and central piazza of Canale d’Agordo. John XXIII and Paul VI, and the last of a long line of Italian popes dating back to 1523. A former patriarch of Venice, he was the first pope to take two names, in memory of Sts. ![]() John Paul I reigned as pope for just 33 days in 1978, before he died suddenly of a heart attack in the papal apartments. ![]()
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