Head of the birth house of Pope Benedict: "Broadened goodness to the end"
Created: 12/31/2022, 1:20 p.m
By: Katarina Amtmann
Pope Benedict XVI
is dead. There is also mourning in Bavaria.
In the house where you were born you want to “preserve your life and legacy”.
Marktl/Vatican - Pope Benedict XVI.
died in the Vatican on the morning of December 31, 2022.
There is grief in his native Bavaria.
Pope Benedict XVI
died: Joseph Ratzinger was born in Marktl in 1927
The Pope Emeritus was born in 1927 as Joseph Ratzinger in Marktl (district of Altötting).
There, a good hour after Benedict's death, a rainbow appeared in the sky.
After the death of the longtime head of the Catholic Church, people remember him in the Upper Bavarian town.
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Birthplace of Pope Benedict XVI.
– “We remember gratefully”
The theological director of the house where Benedict XVI was born.
in Marktl, Franz Haringer, referred to the theological achievements and the deep faith of the emeritus pope.
"We gratefully remember his work as a professor of theology, as a bishop, cardinal and pope," wrote Haringer.
"Even in the years after his resignation from the Petrine ministry, he put his prayers and thoughts into the service of the Church." Now his long earthly life has come to an end.
To the end, Benedict XVI.
Exudes kindness and serenity.
His life often turned out differently than he had planned.
"But the academic teacher has also allowed himself to be employed as a shepherd."
The birthplace of Pope Benedict XVI.
in Marktl.
© Sven Hoppe/dpa +++ dpa picture radio +++
Birthplace of Joseph Ratzinger - "Preserving the path of life and legacy"
In the house where he was born in Upper Bavaria, it remains the honorable task of preserving his life and his theological legacy, wrote Haringer.
"I am convinced that his life, faith and thinking will continue to provide a multitude of impulses for believers and for all questioning people in the future."
(kam/dpa)
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