Pictures Pope John PAUL I

Luciani as a young priest 1936	Luciani 1966
Pope Paul VI makes Luciani a cardinal in 1973	John Paul I at the window for the Angelus

Pope John Paul I's body lies in state in St Peter's Basilica, 1978. The behaviour of the authorities made a striking contrast to the way that the deaths of his predecessors had been handled for a century and more		Tomb of John Paul I in the Vatican Grottoes.