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The death of former Pope Benedict XVI

The Italian media announced today, Saturday andThe death of the former Pope of the Vatican Benedict XVI.

Pope Benedict, 95, is the first pope of the Catholic Church to resign in 600 years, due to his advanced age, in 2013.

After Benedict’s health deteriorated, Pope Francis asked at the end of the last meeting this year for people to say a “special prayer for Pope Benedict.”

The retired Pope, whose real name was “Joseph Ratzinger,” had resigned from his post due to deteriorating health and had since lived in a monastery in the heart of the Vatican Gardens.

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