Since 9 a.m., people can say goodbye to emeritus Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. take. Thousands of faithful line up at the basilica’s entrance to pay their last respects to the 95-year-old pope who passed away on December 31. Joseph Ratzinger’s body will be laid out in public for three days until his funeral on Thursday.
Rome is taking special security measures for the funeral of the pope emeritus.
More than 1000 police officers on duty
As in the past, more than 1,000 police officers are deployed at the funeral of Pope John Paul II, who died in 2005, and at major canonizations. The number of metal detectors to check believers entering St. Peter’s Square will be expanded.
Condolences poured in from all over the world on Benedict’s death. Politicians, clergy and heads of state have described him as a “giant of the faith”, “an advocate for a more fraternal world”, “a defining figure of the Catholic Church”, “a great scholar” and “one of the most extraordinary theologians”. “.
Small groups of cardinals, nuns, seminarians, families, friends and ex-colleagues of Benedict XVI. visited the Mater Ecclesiae monastery on Sunday, in whose chapel he lay in state on Sunday.
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Benedict XVI was head of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013 before his abdication. After that, the old Pope lived in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican Gardens. He died at the age of 96.
Source: Krone
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