Just because of the "virtue" of humbleness, went on the Pope, "it took just 33 days for Pope Luciani to get into people’s hearts”. In his speeches, John Paul I, according to Benedict XVI, “made examples taken from real life, from his family memories and from folk wisdom. His simplicity was a medium to convey sound, rich lessons, which, because he was gifted with an exceptional memory and a vast culture, he embellished with many quotations from ecclesiastic and profane writers”. So he was, according to the Pope, "an unrivalled catechist in the wake of Saint Pius X, who came from the same place as his and who had been his predecessor, first on Saint Mark’s Chair, then on Saint Peter’s”. “We must feel small before God", said Albino Luciani in that audience and he added: "I am not ashamed of feeling like a child in front of his mother: they believe in their mothers, I believe in the Lord, in what He revealed to me”. “These words reveal all the extent of his faith”, concluded Benedict XVI: “As we thank God for having given him to the Church and to the world, we treasure his example, committing ourselves to cultivating the same humbleness as his, which enabled him to speak to anyone, especially to the small ones and to the so-called distant ones”.” “
