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Pope Francis paid tribute to his predecessor former Pope Benedict XVI Thursday, in a funeral attended by tens of hundreds of mourners at St. Peter’s Square.
The occasion marked the primary event in trendy occasions {that a} pontiff had presided over the funeral of his predecessor – and the primary ever of 1 who resigned. Benedict, the primary pontiff in nearly 600 years to resign his place, quite than maintain workplace for all times, died aged 95 on December 31 at a monastery in Vatican City.
It was an event characterised by simplicity, as per the want of the previous pope. “It’s difficult to have a simple service in St. Peter’s Square, but I think it was,” Father James Martin, a Jesuit priest, author and editor, instructed CNN’s Max Foster and Bianca Nobilo on CNN Newsroom.
“You need to have some pomp and ceremony for a former pope, however I feel throughout the pointers…
2023-01-05 12:24:03 Pope Benedict XVI funeral: Pope Francis leads funeral for predecessor, a primary in trendy occasions
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