Pope John Paul I was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City from 26 August 1978 to his death33 dayslater.

On the morning of Sept. 29, 1978, Sister Vicenza entered the pope’s room to check on him, after noticing that he had yet to come out for his morning coffee. To her horror, she found him dead in his bed. She quickly summoned another sister to confirm what she’d found, a younger nun named Sister Margherita. Both nuns reported that the pope’s skin was cold and that his nails were surprisingly dark.

The official cause of death, according to a Vatican doctor, was a heart attack.

A few years after his death, British crime writer David Yallop published a book titled In God’s Name which suggested that Pope John Paul I had been murdered, and had been in danger ever since he was elected.

Yallop claims that the pope was aware of corruption within the Vatican Bank and that that was the reason he was killed. He states that when the pope’s body was found, he’d had a note crumpled in his hand with the names of bank members that were involved in Freemasonry, which is strictly banned within the Catholic Church.

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Text below photo: Pope John Paul I (L) meets Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, archibishop of Kracow, in this October 16, 1978 file photograph. Cardinal Karol Wojtyla later became Pope John Paul II.