Editing Pope John Paul I (section)

===Views of successors===

====John Paul II====

[[File:Museo papa Luciani.jpg|thumb|215px|The Pope Luciani museum]]

[[Pope John Paul II|Karol Wojtyła]] was [[October 1978 papal conclave|elected]] John Paul I's successor as [[Pope]] on Monday, 16 October 1978. The next day he celebrated [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]] together with the [[College of Cardinals]] in the [[Sistine Chapel]]. After the Mass, he delivered his first ''[[Urbi et Orbi]]'' (a traditional blessing) message, broadcast worldwide via radio. In it he pledged fidelity to the [[Second Vatican Council]] and paid tribute to his predecessor:<ref>{{cite web|title=First Radiomessage "Urbi et orbi", Pope John Paul II|publisher=[[Libreria Editrice Vaticana]]|url=https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/1978/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19781017_primo-radiomessaggio_en.html|access-date=28 November 2008}}</ref>

{{blockquote|What can we say of John Paul I? It seems to us that only yesterday he emerged from this assembly of ours to put on the papal robes — not a light weight. But what warmth of charity, nay, what "an abundant outpouring of love" — which came forth from him in the few days of his ministry and which in his last Sunday address before the [[Angelus]] he desired should come upon the world. This is also confirmed by his wise instructions to the faithful who were present at his public audiences on faith, hope and love.}}

====Benedict XVI====

Benedict XVI spoke of the late pontiff on 28 September 2008 (the 30th anniversary of John Paul I's death) during his weekly Angelus address. Of the late pope, he said:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/angelus/2008/documents/hf_ben-xvi_ang_20080928.html|title=Angelus, 28 September 2008, Castel Gandolfo|publisher=[[Holy See]]|date=28 September 2008|accessdate=21 February 2022}}</ref>

{{blockquote|Because of this virtue of his, it only took 33 days for Pope Luciani to win people's hearts. In his addresses he always referred to events in practical life, from his family memories and from popular wisdom. His simplicity was a vehicle for a solid, rich teaching which, thanks to the gift of an exceptional memory and a vast knowledge, he embellished with numerous citations from ecclesiastical and secular writers. Thus, he was an incomparable catechist, following in the footsteps of St [[Pope Pius X|Pius X]], who came from the same region and was his predecessor first on the throne of St Mark and then on that of St Peter. 'We must feel small before God,' he said during the same Audience. And he added, 'I am not ashamed to feel like a child before his mother; one believes in one's mother; I believe in the Lord, in what he has revealed to me.' These words reveal the full depth of his faith. As we thank God for having given him to the church and to the world, let us treasure his example, striving to cultivate his same humility which enabled him to talk to everyone, especially the small and the 'distant.' For this, let us invoke Mary Most Holy, the humble handmaid of the Lord.}}

====Francis====

Pope Francis spoke of his predecessor in his 2016 book ''The Name of God Is Mercy'' in which Francis recalls how touched he was by his predecessor's writings. More than any of his predecessors mentioned in his book, Francis refers to Luciani the most. The pope referred to Luciani's remarks at the latter's general audience of 6 September 1978 and mentioned how profound that his words were upon him; of the remarks Luciani made, he said:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2016/01/11/pope_francis_quotes_john_paul_i/en-1200269|title=Pope Francis quotes John Paul I|publisher=[[Vatican Radio]]|author=|date=11 January 2016|accessdate=21 February 2022}}</ref>

{{blockquote|There is the homily when Albino Luciani said he had been chosen because the Lord preferred that certain things not be engraved in bronze or marble but in the dust, so that if the writing had remained, it would have been clear that the merit was only God's.}}