Editing Pope John Paul I (section)

==Death==

[[File:TombaBeatoGiovanniPaoloI2022.jpg|thumb|235px|Tomb of John Paul I in the Vatican Grottoes following his 2022 beatification]]

Around 10 p.m. on the day of his death, the pope learned that several young [[neo-Fascists]] had fired upon a group of young people reading ''[[L'Unità]]'', the Communist newspaper, outside one of the party's offices in Rome. One boy was killed while another was seriously wounded. The pope lamented to [[John Magee (bishop)|Bishop John Magee]], "Even the young are killing each other." He later retired to his room to read [[Thomas à Kempis]]'s ''[[The Imitation of Christ]]'' in bed.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/sep/30/pope-john-paul-1-death-vatican|title=From the archive, 30 September 1978: Pope John Paul I dies of heart attack|journal=The Guardian|date=30 September 2013|access-date=28 February 2015|last1=Armstrong|first1=George}}</ref>

On 29 September 1978, on what would have been the 35th day of his pontificate, John Paul I was found dead in his bed with reading material and a bedside lamp still lit. He had probably suffered a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] the night before.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.crisismagazine.com/2009/a-quiet-death-in-rome-was-pope-john-paul-i-murdered|title=A Quiet Death in Rome: Was Pope John Paul I Murdered?|date=1 April 2009|website=Crisis Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=15 September 2019}}</ref> Upon the global announcement of the news, [[Bolivia]] declared six days of mourning,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.derechoteca.com/gacetabolivia/decreto-supremo-15850-del-29-septiembre-1978 | title=DECRETO SUPREMO No 15850 del 29 de Septiembre de 1978 > D-Lex Bolivia &#124; Gaceta Oficial de Bolivia &#124; Derechoteca }}</ref> while [[Spain]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-1978-24813 | title=BOE.es - BOE-A-1978-24813 Real Decreto 2329/1978, de 29 de septiembre, por el que se declara luto nacional por el fallecimiento de Su Santidad el Papa Juan Pablo I }}</ref> [[Zaire]]<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dd_bpKbE7XUC&q=pope+john+paul+I+died+declares+three+days+mourning&pg=PA120 | title=The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire | isbn=0253317037 | last1=Schatzberg | first1=Michael G. | year=1988 | publisher=Indiana University Press }}</ref> and [[Lebanon]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Homan |first1=Richard L. |title=World Reacts With Disbelief And Concern |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/09/30/world-reacts-with-disbelief-and-concern/b028ccdb-8f52-4bde-9e63-31f56aebc665/ |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=10 June 2022 |date=30 September 1978}}</ref> all declared three days of mourning.

John Paul I's funeral was held in [[Saint Peter's Square]] on 4 October 1978, celebrated by [[Carlo Confalonieri]]. In his [[eulogy]] of the late pope, he described him as a flashing comet who briefly lit up the church. He then was laid to rest in the [[Vatican Grottoes]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Tomb of John Paul I |url=http://stpetersbasilica.info/Grottoes/JPI/Tomb%20of%20John%20Paul%20I.htm |website=St Peter’s Basilica Info |access-date=15 April 2023}}</ref>

[[File:1000 lire John Paul I - 1978.png|thumb|right|250px|1000 [[Vatican lira|lire]] silver coin with a portrait of John Paul I on the front (1978)]]

There are several [[Pope John Paul I conspiracy theories|conspiracy speculations related to his death]].

===2018 revelations===

The journalist and vice-postulator for John Paul I's cause of canonisation, Stefania Falasca, published a new book in 2017 titled ''Pope Luciani, Chronicle of a Death'', in which she revealed that John Paul I had complained of chest pains hours before his death and the evening before, but paid no attention to them and ordered that his doctor not be called.<ref name=BDC>{{cite web|url=https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2017/11/06/sainthood-bid-heats-book-debunks-conspiracies-john-paul/|title=As sainthood bid heats up, book debunks conspiracies on John Paul I|date=6 November 2017|access-date=6 November 2017|author=Inés San Martín|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171106084147/https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2017/11/06/sainthood-bid-heats-book-debunks-conspiracies-john-paul/|archive-date=6 November 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Falasca confirmed, after interviewing the sisters who found him and documents from the [[Vatican Apostolic Archive]], that John Paul I died of a heart attack in the late evening hours of 28&nbsp;September 1978.<ref name=JPIDC>Brockhaus, Hannah. "New book reveals details of John Paul I's death", Catholic News Agency, 6 November 2017</ref>

The [[Cardinal Secretary of State]] [[Pietro Parolin]], in his preface for the book, describes the various conspiracies regarding John Paul I's death as little more than "noir reconstructions". Parolin further says that the sudden death of the pope inspired "myriad theories, suspicions, [and] suppositions" based on opinion rather than fact.<ref name=BDC/>

Falasca noted the 2009 testimony of Sister Margherita Marin, one of the two [[Nun#Distinction between a nun and a religious sister|sister]]s who found the pope dead in his bedroom on the morning of 29 September 1978. John Paul I had made it a practice to have a morning coffee in the [[sacristy]] and then go into the chapel to pray before tending to the day's matters.<ref name=MJPI/> Sister [[Vincenza Taffarel]] had noted the pope had not touched the coffee she had left for him in the sacristy at 5:15 am (after about 10 minutes) and went looking for him but found him dead, and hastily summoned Marin, who also went into the room.<ref>{{Cite web|date=7 November 2017|title=Nun relives the moment she found Pope John Paul I dead|url=https://catholicherald.co.uk/nun-relives-moment-she-found-pope-john-paul-i-dead/|access-date=13 October 2021|website=Catholic Herald|language=en-GB}}</ref>

Sister Vincenza said: "He hasn't come out yet? Why not?" and knocked a few more times but heard silence, then opened the door and walked in. Marin remained in the hallway but heard the elder sister say: "Your Holiness, you shouldn't pull these jokes on me" because Sister Vincenza also had heart problems.<ref name=BDC/><ref name=MJPI/><ref name=JPIDC/> Marin testified that John Paul I's hands were cold and she was struck by the darkness of his nails.<ref name=BDC/> Marin further testified that original information provided by the Vatican regarding who discovered the pope was wrong, since it had originally been claimed the discovery was by the pope's secretaries Lorenzi and Magee.<ref name=JPIDC/> Marin testified that "he was in bed with a slight smile" on his face. The reading light over the headboard was still on, with his two pillows under his back propping him up, with his legs outstretched and his arms on top of the bedsheets. John Paul I was still in his [[pyjamas]] with a few typewritten sheets in his hands. His head was slightly turned to the right and his eyes were partially closed; his glasses rested on his nose.<ref name=MJPI>{{cite web|url=https://aleteia.org/2017/11/06/john-paul-is-mysterious-death-now-less-a-mystery/|title=Is the mystery over the death of John Paul I finally solved?|date=6 November 2017|access-date=7 November 2017|author=Ary Waldir Ramos Diaz|publisher=Aleteia}}</ref>

John Paul I had suffered a severe pain in his chest for about five minutes around 7:30 pm while reciting the vespers in the chapel with Magee before dinner, but insisted against calling for Doctor Renato Buzzonetti. The latter, the book claimed, was informed of that episode after the pope's death.<ref name=JPIDC/> The book also revealed that, before the [[October 1978 papal conclave|conclave that elected John Paul II]], the cardinals had sent a series of written questions to the doctors who had embalmed John Paul I either on 10 or 11 October to check if there had been any signs of traumatic injuries, so as to ascertain if he died naturally rather than suspiciously.<ref>O'Connell, Gerard. "Pope John Paul I, "the smiling pope", is on the path to sainthood", ''America'' Magazine, 4 November 2017</ref> Doctor Buzzonetti sent a detailed report to the Cardinal Secretary of State [[Agostino Casaroli]] on 9 October 1979 detailing that the episode of pain John Paul I suffered was in the upper part of the sternal region.

Sister Margherita noted in late 2017 in comments made in Belluno that the pope had made a half-hour phone call on the evening of his death to [[Giovanni Colombo]] and said he wanted the [[Rector Major of the Salesians]] [[Egidio Viganò]] to agree to serve as John Paul I's successor as [[Patriarch of Venice]].<ref name=FD/>