LE FIGARO.
- Who was Albino Luciani, who became John Paul I?
Stefania FALASCA.
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We think we know this pope, but his humble smile hides an accomplished literary man, an extremely cultured man.
His words were chiseled, refined to gain evocative power.
He mastered the art of dialogue à la Molière or à la Goldoni.
He used this talent for a specific theological purpose: the
sermo humilis
in the sense of Saint Augustine, that is to say a message adapted and useful to all to share the good news of salvation.
His father was a worker and his mother did the washing up in a religious pension in Venice.
But this child prodigy, self-taught, had learned by himself French, German, English, Russian, of which he had read the greatest authors, not to mention the Latin and Greek classics and those of Italian literature.
One of the great merits of this beatification process will have made it possible to collect all his written documents, his notebooks, his diaries and his library and to discover…
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