During the 34 days of Luciani’s presidency, Sister Margherita, who served in the Pope’s residence, described the last days of John Paul I’s life in an interview, and saw with her own eyes that there was no more life. of the Pope.
(Vatican News Network) From this extraordinary testimony we learn that it was Sister Vincenza and Sister Margherita who were the first to discover the Pope’s body, and not the Secretary as announced in the official notice. In those days, perhaps it would have been inappropriate to say that the nuns, not the secretary, went to the Pope’s chambers to discover his death.
But from Sister Margherita’s story, in addition to knowing the anecdote about the shirt, the Pope, worried that she worked too much, asked her to iron only the collar and cuffs, also revealing another fundamental detail: when Luciani died. .
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