In 1982, the scandal of Banco Ambrosiano, a nearly century-old Italian financial institution that collapsed like a house of cards after maintaining a very close relationship with the Institute for the Works of Religion, an entity popularly known as the Vatican Bank, hit all the headlines in the international press. In the plot of the bank's downfall, besides the Vatican, other major actors appeared, such as the rogue Masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P-2) or the Sicilian financier Michele Sindona. Just after the bankruptcy, Roberto Calvi, who was the president of Banco Ambrosiano, was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge on the London Thames, while Paul Marcinkus, the head of Vatican finances, was removed from his post and sent to his hometown in Illinois. For his part, Licio Gelli, the Grand Master of the P-2, was sentenced to prison.