I come without five lire. I want to leave without five lire.


On being appointed as Bishop of Vittorio Veneto (December 1958), Luciani declined gifts offered to him by the priests of the diocese; as quoted in In God's Name (1984) by David Yallop, p. 44


I come without five lire. I want to leave without five lire.

I come without five lire. I want to leave without five lire.

I come without five lire. I want to leave without five lire.

I come without five lire. I want to leave without five lire.