Albino Luciani was born on 17 October 1912 in Forno di Canale (now Canale d'Agordo) in Belluno , a province of the Veneto region in northern Italy . He was the son of Giovanni Luciani (1872? - 1952), a bricklayer, and Bortola Tancon (1879? - 1948). Albino was followed by two