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Happy 92nd Birthday, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI!  

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-04/pope-francis-benedict-pope-emeritus-birthday-easter-greetings.html
Pope Francis visits Pope emeritus on eve of Benedict’s birthday
16 April 2019, 09:28

Pope Francis with Pope emeritus Benedict XVI
At the beginning of Holy Week, Pope Francis makes a special visit to the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery to offer Easter greetings to the Pope emeritus, Benedict XVI.

The visit was announced by ad interim director of the Holy See Press Office, Alessandro Gisotti, who noted that the encounter also offered Pope Francis the opportunity, “with particular affection”, to wish Benedict a happy 92nd birthday.

Joseph Ratzinger was elected to the papacy in 2005 just three days after his 78th birthday, making him one of the oldest popes at the time of his election.
 
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On his birthday, read Benedict XVI’s 2008 meditation in Notre Dame, “rising in the heart of the city as a living sign of God’s presence in our midst ... It is hard not to give thanks to the Creator of both matter and spirit for the beauty of this edifice”  http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/homilies/2008/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20080912_parigi-vespri.html …