Late Former Pope Benedict XVI Former Pope Benedict, who in 2013 became the first pontiff in 600 years to resign, died this Saturday morning, December 31, 2022, aged 95 in a secluded monastery in the Vatican where he had lived since stepping down. A spokesman for the Holy See made this disclosure, adding that his body would lie in state from Monday in St.Peter’s Basilica. The Vatican has painstakingly elaborate rituals for what happens after a reigning pope dies but no publicly known ones for a former pope. Said Matteo…
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