Sanctuaries and Churches

Pietralba

It was the sanctuary of his childhood, to which he also came back as a man to spend  days of rest and prayer ...

Lourdes

Msgr. Albino Luciani had visited the sanctuary of the Virgin of  Lourdes several times accompanying UNITALSI peregrinations.

Fatima

In July, 1977, Card. Luciani went as a pilgrim to this sanctuary... Then, in  Coimbra, he would never have imagined what was about to happen to him, using the same words on the following day of his election as a Pontiff: his meeting with Fatima's seer, Sister Lucia, would have changed the history of his life. The Lord was asking him for a last personal sacrifice : the total and absolute resignation of himself to be given entirely, not only to Him, but also to the world and so to  allow us to live the 33 days of love that the Lord was giving us... Later, his return, in a hurry, to Fatima, surely to ask the Virgin for help and consolation... He would have felt the maternal tenderness of That one to whom he had been entrusted since he was a child. Certainly, the Virgin never abandons her children ...

Capilla de las apariciones

Batalha

Also, during the same visit to Portugal on July, 1977, Card. Luciani had visited this monastery.

Pompei

Vitória

In his visit to Brazil on November, 1975, he had travelled a little throughout this country meeting the immigrants from Veneto. He also was in this port city.

GCM 2001