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"Everyone should know that Albino Luciani [Pope John Paul I] was the victim of a plot" - Giuseppe Pedullá

I could have warned John Paul I: The enigmas of the past come forward

Veronica - Our Lady now is pointing up to the left side of the sky, and over on the left side I can see two cardinals.  They are walking toward each other.  Each has the key, a very large golden key in his hand, like this.  Now they’re standing in front of each other, and they’re crossing the keys, like this.  Two cardinals.  Now they’re pointing now with the keys over to the right of them, and over on the right there is the building, a very large building.  It appears to be St. Peter’s.  Yes, it’s a domed building.  It is St. Peter’s, the Vatican.  
     Now they’re pointing upward with the keys, high over their heads.  And in the sky over the keys I can see the numbers of “666” forming.  The letterings are black, tinged in red on the outside, “666.”  Now it’s beginning to fade away, the whole scene, as though it’s like blowing, evaporating.  It’s completely, almost completely gone now.
     Our Lady is motioning now to listen.
Our Lady - “My child, you will understand soon the meaning of this message.  You must pray now for your new Vicar.  There is a foul plan afoot against him.” – September 13, 1978

“My child and My children, I am not intending to go through a long discourse with you on the present state of My Church in Rome.  Suffice it to say that 666, Lucifer and his agents, will make a concerted effort to dethrone the present Vicar.*  In his plan, the plan of Lucifer, he seeks to unite My Church with the world, and this I shall not permit.” – Jesus, September 28, 1978

* Pope John Paul I was found dead the next morning.

(Note: Fr. Jesús López Sáez is a Spanish priest and author of many articles and several books exposing the murder of Pope John Paul I, including Se Pedirá Cuenta and Juan Pablo I: Caso Abierto. Please read our review of his book Se Pedirá Cuenta and another review by José Manuel Vidal)

by Fr. Jesús López Sáez:

Giuseppe Pedullá did not want to take the secret to the grave:  “I could have saved the life of Pope John Paul I.  I didn't do it.  And today I can't forgive myself; I must tell someone.”  It's an enormous weight that oppresses him, that crushes him, that won't let him sleep since that Tuesday, September 26, 1978 when he refused to carry the letter that Archbishop Emeritus Pacifico Perantoni wanted to be handed directly into the hands of Pope Luciani  in order to warn him that he was in danger.  Journalist Stefano Lorenzetti had a long interview in “Il giornale” (26 April 2015). We have selected those aspects that seem most important, and have added some things. 

“I ignore," says Giuseppe, "how Perantoni had arrived at the conclusion that someone intended to kill the Pope.  I only know that when I told him that I did not feel I had the strength to be the bearer of such a horrible message, he reproached me angrily.  You will repent! And indeed I have repented!  Three days later the Holy Father was dead!” The voice stays in his throat until it remains a contained cry.

Giuseppe Pedullá is 83 years old.  He is from Marina Giogiosa (Reggio Calabria).  His father, Domenico, is an invalid of the war.  He was not a good husband nor a good father.  His mother, Mariana, worked in a tobacco bar.  He is the second of seven brothers.  All of them have careers while he works with his brother, Rocco, in order to support the family.  He has done all kinds of things; he has taken care of his own bar, has learned to make pastry;  has been the representative in Calabria of a brand of billiards, chauffer of a teacher, also a furrier.  He lives in Piacenza d’Adige, province of Padua. Before he lived in Badia Polesine, in the region of Veneto, where he moved due to family problems and in order to be near Archbishop Perantoni, who resigned in 1974 and retired to Peschiera del Garda, in the province of Verona, next  to the sanctuary of the Virgin of Fresno.

Born in 1895 near Verona, Perantoni was a Franciscan and general of the Order (1945-1951).  In 1952 he was appointed  bishop of Gerace, in the province of  Reggio, Calabria; ten years later he was named Archbishop of Lanciano-Ortona, in the region of the Abruzos.   He died in 1982, at the age of 87.

In Calabria, says Giuseppe, he formed part of a group of faithful persons who followed the Franciscan bishop all over.  Among them was Guido Laganá, promoter of the DC.  Unfortunately, the Archbishop of Reggio Calabria, Giovanni Ferro, cut short Perantoni´s career convinced that he had contacts with the ‘Ndrangheta [a Mafia-type organized crime group based in Calabria, Italy]. In reality he was very studious, far from the Mafioso’s.  He had a very ample culture, and spoke several languages. Being near him was a continuous enrichment.  He often went to visit him at the Bishopric, was his chauffeur and took pastry to him.

- And why did you follow him everywhere? 

I am very religious. It's a gift from my mother who was very religious, really a saint.

Perantoni confided to him that the Patriarch of Venice [the future Pope John Paul I] had told Sister Lucy of his visit.  Luciani left that meeting upset over their conversation which took place July 11, 1977 in the Carmel of Coimbra.  The seer of  Fatima told him:  “You will be pope after Paul VI, but only for a short time."  The essence of the dialogue was not revealed by Luciani, not even to his brother.  It can be noted that Perantoni was more than a brother to him:  a confessor. So much so that one day when I found the Patriarch in the Sanctuary of the Virgin of Fresno, I naively uttered this sentence: “Your Eminence, I am sure that one day you will be the next pope.”  Perantoni glared at me with his look but Luciani affably dismissed the prognosis with a gesture of his hand: “No, for charity, let's pray that the Lord will preserve Paul VI.”

- Did you have other encounters with the Cardinal? 

Yes, in Peschiera and in Venice, in the patriarchy. Seeing the filial relationship that united me to the Archbishop, the Cardinal appreciated me.

- What was Luciani like?

Catechist, catechist, catechist.  Of a granite fidelity to the Magisterium and of an angelic kindness.

- Did Perantoni know any secrets?

The 30th day of John Paul I's pontificate, he telephoned me:  “Pepe, come here immediately,” I was in Trecenta, in the region of Veneto.  I took the car and went to Peschiera.  We rode around the plaza of the sanctuary.  At the end he put a letter in my hands:  “You must take this personally to Albino Luciani, at the Vatican.  The Pope is in grave danger.”  He had hand written the Pope's name on the envelope.  I didn't want to accept the errand. 

- Why? 

I thought Perantoni exaggerated and I was terrified.

- Didn't he ask you what you based your fears on?

No. I understand that it seems strange to you but I am a simple person.  To me it was unimaginable that someone could attempt against the Pope's life.  And yet three days later I again went to the Sanctuary to cry, bitterly repentant, exactly as Perantoni had told me. 

- Not even then did you ask the Archbishop as to the content of the letter that you didn't have the courage to give to Pope Luciani?

No.

- But it's against all logic! 

It goes against all logic, but I behaved in this manner.  Not everyone is prepared as are newspaper men to ask questions as you are doing.  Yes, I could have taken the letter and kept it. Today it would be proof.  But I committed that sacrilege.

- There would have been at least an idea as to who was interested in eliminating John Paul I.

Wasn't Jesus Christ crucified for 30 denarius? 

- Be more explicit. 

With time, he remembered a sentence that Cardinal Luciani had said to Perantoni:  “The money we have belongs to the poor because it is the poor and not the rich, who support the Church. And we?  What do we do?” We give it to Calvi!  Luciani hadn´t forgotten that the Catholic Bank of Veneto had ended under the control of the Ambrosiano Bank of Roberto Calvi.

- Did Perantoni ever speak of the disagreement between John Paul I and Marcinkus? 

No. The only disagreement that he spoke to me about was that with Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio, prefect of the Congregation of Bishops.  The Pope wanted to name as patriarch of Venice a man of his confidence, who would continue with the work he had left.  Twice the Cardinal rejected accepting the wish of the Holy Father.  At the third attempt, Luciani became impatient: “If you do not send to Venice whom I tell you to, you must go.”  Baggio left the papal studio slamming the door.  The next day Luciani was dead. One month later, the Cardinal was confirmed in his position.  Baggio and Marcinkus, we comment, were on the list of 121 Vatican masons whom had been published by the newspaper man, Mino Pecorelli, in his magazine OP (12-September-1978).

- Didn't he try to inform some religious authority of the suspicions of Archbishop Perantoni?

Listen.  One day, while dining at Bagolo di Po in the house of the Fantinati brothers the No 1 television station announced that Pope Wojtyla wanted to beatify Father Pino Puglisi, assassinated by the mafia in Palermo in 1993.  Spontaneously I slammed the table:  Wasn't John Paul I also a victim of a Mafioso plot?  Then I thought of gathering signatures so that Luciani could be beatified.  I entered the Basílica of Saint Peter.  I saw 30 cardinal's caps who were finishing a celebration.  They went to the lateral nave.   I reached them in the back of the left side.  I stopped one, a black.  I would later learn  that it was Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, from Benin, whom Pope Luciani  had named President of the Pontifical Council of Cor Unum.  I tried to speak with him.  He caressed my cheek and answered: “Wait.”  He removed his liturgical vestments, excused those that were present and told me: “I am here, what do you want?”  I spoke to him of my plan to ask for the beatification of John Paul I.  He replied: “He is already a saint.”  Then the name of Archbishop  Perantoni came to me spontaneously.  When he heard it, the cardinal became startled and stopped looking at me.  I pleaded, and touched his vestment:  “Eminence, why do you turn away from me?  Tell me how I should behave.”   Shortly afterwards and with an air of complicity, he ended the sentence with a very Italian gesture: he touched me lightly with his elbow.  We commented:   for the sake of prudence Giuseppe didn't say anything more, his mother strongly recommended Giuseppe not to say anything more.

- It's difficult for me to explain the scene.

But, doctor, it's clear!   In the Vatican things are known.  They comment amongst themselves.  Giuseppe showed the journalist an autographed card of congratulation from 2002 written by Cardinal Gantin: “with great cordiality”, and sent to his former address: Badia Polesine, Riviera Matteotti, 177.

- And you didn't speak to anyone else about the Perratoni letter?

With my mother and with a bishop from the center of Italy.  He mentions his name but begs that it not be published, and added:  In 2005 I asked for an audience with Benedict XVI.  Monsignor Gabriele Caccia, of the Secretariat of State answered me:  “You can communicate in writing what you wish to tell the Pope.”  I didn't have the courage to do it.  But now the time is urgent and I have decided to remedy it.  Everyone should know that Albino Luciani was the victim of a plot.  

Giuseppe had three encounters with Eduardo Luciani, the brother of the Pope, and others with Antonia, his younger sister with whom he ended being friends. “He gave me these objects which belonged to Albino,” two cardinal's hat with an astrakhan purse, six pairs of glasses and two old school books that have the last name “Luciano” handwritten by the future pope on the silk envelope that cover the caps.

- What do you think of Pope Francis?

I like him.  He has impressed me by his not wanting to live inside the Apostolic Palace.  It must be a miracle of the Lord  the liberty that he enjoys.  I can't explain it in another way.

Commentary: Although late, the testimony of Giuseppe, his confession and his sorrow is very important: "I could have saved the life of Pope John Paul I. I did not do it." Perhaps better, I could have warned him, even if I had not discovered anything new.  In fact, his death had been announced by the journalist Mino Pecorelli in his OP magazine on September 12 and 26, 1978. His inner struggle at the decisive moment is striking: "I thought Perantoni exaggerated," but he also recognized his fear: "I was terrified."

More or less we knew from other sources, but the confidence of Archbishop Perantoni is very valuable about what Sister Lucia said to Cardinal Luciani in 1977: "You will be pope after Paul VI, but only for a very short time."

The remembered accusation that Cardinal Luciani made of the monies of the Church is very valuable: "The money we have belongs to the poor, because it is the poor, and not the rich, who maintain the Church. And what do we do?" The answer is obvious: We give it to Calvi!

The state of things in the Church is scandalous, as it appears in the evasive attitude, although later cordial attitude of Cardinal Gantin (+2008), who for many years was prefect of the Congregation of Bishops (1984-1998).

And Pope Francis? He cannot participate in the general comedy, he cannot be silent, he must do justice. As it is said in Psalm 78: "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from old."

- Jesús López Sáez

“We will go back, My child, in history, a short history, and remember well what had happened in Rome to John, Pope John, whose reign lasted 33 days.  O My child, it is history now, but it is placed in the book that lists the disasters in mankind.  He received the horror and martyrdom by drinking from a glass.  It was a champagne glass given to him by a now deceased member of the clergy and the Secretariat of the State [Cardinal Villot].” - Our Lady, May 21, 1983 

Articles

The Murder of Pope John Paul I
https://www.tldm.org/news3/johnpauli.htm

The strange death of a Pope: “John Paul I was assassinated”
https://www.tldm.org/news11/johnpauliassassinated.htm

Many are called and few are chosen (book review of Se Pedirá Cuenta)
https://www.tldm.org/news11/sepedir%C3%A1cuentareview.htm