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| | December 2000 |
 | | In 1958, on 15 December, Don Luciani, aged forty six, would become Bishop of Vittorio Veneto, being consecrated by John XXIII at Saint Peter’s in Rome on 27 December. |
 | | In his letter of 30 December 1959, addressed to the Secretary of the Preparatory Commission of Vatican II, he observed: «Generally speaking, it seems that our experts, and even a fair number of the bishops, have a profound contempt for private revelations. |
 | | Mgr Luciani, whom we encountered earlier, was appointed Patriarch of Venice on 15 December 1969, at a time when the second period of Paul VI’s papacy was dragging on, the period which our Father will call «the time of anxiety». |
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