Denver Newsroom, Sep 3, 2022 / 11:00 am
A letter written on the eve of the conclave that elected him Bishop of Rome shows that Albino Luciani expected to return to Venice as its patriarch.
“Fortunately, I am absolutely out of danger,” Luciani wrote from Rome Aug. 24, 1978, to Bishop Giuseppe Carraro, who had recently retired as Bishop of Verona.
“As soon as possible I will come to see you,” Luciani, who was elected pope Aug. 26, added.
Luciani took the name John Paul I. He will be beatified Sept. 4.