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Pope Albino Luciani (John Paul I) died on the evening of 28 September 1978, after a 33-day pontificate — the shortest in modern history. Sister Vincenza Taffarel found him unresponsive in bed at about 5:30 a.m. the next morning. The Vatican announced death by heart attack and reported that he had been reading the Imitation of Christ. No autopsy was performed. David Yallop's 'In God's Name' (1984) alleged poisoning orchestrated by the P2 Masonic lodge and Vatican Bank insiders — Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, banker Roberto Calvi, and Licio Gelli — who feared Luciani's planned financial reforms. John Cornwell's counter-investigation 'A Thief in the Night' (1989), commissioned by the Vatican, found no evidence of murder and attributed death to an undiagnosed pulmonary embolism.