Papal Bull - 3 Quarks Daily

Papal Bull - 3 Quarks Daily

by Rafaël Newman Diego Velazquez, “Pope Innocent X” (1650); Francis Bacon, “Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X” (1953). Double image: Phaidon On September 29, 1978, Albino Luciani, who had been elected Pope John Paul I just 33 days earlier, on August 26, 1978, was found dead in his bed, his death likely due to a heart attack. Luciani had succeeded Paul VI, who was himself preceded by John XXIII—the two Popes were commemorated in…