Cardinal Stella spoke to the pontiff about the need to avoid privatization. The Holy Father’s move is another indication that Don Albino’s beatification is near
CANALE D’AGORDO. Was it the Pope himself who encouraged Cardinal Beniamino Stella to preserve the birthplace of Albino Luciani from the risk of privatization? And why would Bergoglio get involved in this affair? It is known that Pope Francis knew Beniamino Stella, apostolic nuncio to South America, even before being elected to the papal throne. Not only did he know him, but he also esteemed him. And Stella must surely have talked to him about his bishop of Vittorio Veneto, Albino Luciani. And he must have also told him, in all likelihood, that it was precisely from the Brazilian bishops that the first solicitation for the opening of the cause for the beatification of the “pope of the smile” came. Not only. The prodigious healing of the child, which today constitutes the miracle attributed to Luciani’s intercession, took place in Buenos Aires, the diocese of Cardinal Bergoglio. Here, then, that everything is held.
The other day, in Canale d’Agordo, Cardinal Stella confided that he had asked for advice “from above” on the opportunity to take charge of safeguarding the public use of Luciani’s birthplace.
And “on top” can only mean the highest summit in the Vatican. Here, then, is that the availability of the house in Canale, far from a purely museum conception, is undoubtedly connected to the prospect, now close, of the beatification of “don Albino”, as he is still called in Canale. Stella admitted the other day, after visiting the house, that he had convinced himself, once more, that he had done “a good thing”. Mayor Flavio Colcergnan, who defines himself as “the last of the Communists”, is as convinced as Stella that this is the right choice, to honor the blessed future. So much so that the Municipality itself is preparing to redevelop the exterior of the residence. The cardinal, who is postulator of the cause of beatification, donated the property to the diocese of Vittorio Veneto, which has restructured it together with the Patriarchate of Venice and the CEI. It is evident that, as evidenced, after the recognition of the miracle, next October, Pope Francis will not fail to proclaim John Paul I blessed.
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