The news was announced Sunday by Bishop Vincenzo Savio of the Belluno-Feltre Diocese, which includes Forno de Canale (known today as Canale d’Agordo), where Albino Luciani was born in 1912.
The postulator of the cause is Salesian Father Pasquale Liberatore, and the vice postulator is the diocesan priest Monsignor Giorgio Lise, rector of the Pope Luciani Center.
«I am happy,» said Edoardo Luciani, the late Pope’s brother. «At my age, 86, I can only wait for the result with confidence. God’s will be done.»
Albino Luciani was named patriarch of Venice in 1969. He was elected Pope on Aug. 26, 1978. He died a month later, on Sept. 28.
