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Benedict XVI, the emeritus pope who broke the 600-year tradition of not renouncing the pontificate, died this Saturday at the age of 95 in Vatican City.
During the last days, he went through a period of poor health.
In the midst of the mourning of the Catholic community, the details of his vigil and funeral have been revealed.
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The body of Benedict XVI will be veiled from Monday, January 2 at 9:30 am local time, in St. Peter's Basilica, according to the director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI dies at the age of 95
"Starting Monday morning, January 2, 2023, the body of Pope Emeritus [Benedict XVI] will be in St. Peter's Basilica so that the faithful can say goodbye," he wrote on the Vatican News Twitter account.
The funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI will take place on January 5, Bruni added.
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The funeral ceremony will be presided over by Pope Francis.
Update from @HolySeePress Office: Pope Francis will preside over the funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on January 5, 2023, at 9:30 a.m. CET in St. Peter's Square.
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— Vatican News (@VaticanNews) December 31, 2022
According to the wish of the pope emeritus, his funeral will be "simple," Bruni said.
In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI shocked the world by making the almost unprecedented decision to resign his position citing "advanced age."
The last pope to resign before his death was Gregory XII, who resigned in 1415 to end a civil war within the Catholic Church in which more than one man claimed to be pope.
Pope Francis said on December 28 that his predecessor was "very ill" and asked for prayers for the 95-year-old former pope.
“I want to ask everyone for a special prayer for Pope Emeritus Benedict who supports the Church in his silence.
He is very sick,” Francis said during his general audience at the Vatican.
"We ask the Lord to console him and sustain him in this testimony of love for the Church until the end."
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Pope Benedict XVI waves in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican in December 2012. Benedict XVI, 85 at the time, announced on Monday, February 11 of that year that he would resign at the end of February "due to his advanced age." .
The last pope to resign was Gregory XII in 1415. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images) →
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Joseph Ratzinger, who became the 265th pope in 2005, poses for a photo while he was an aide to the German air force in 1943. (AFP/Getty Images)
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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, right, poses for a photograph in Vatican City in June 1977 with his fellow cardinals, from left, Cardinal Gappi, Cardinal Tomazek, Cardinal Gantin, and Cardinal Benelli.
Ratzinger was appointed cardinal presbyter of Santa Maria Consolatrice al Tiburtino by Pope Paul VI in June 1977. (AFP/Getty Images)
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Ratzinger, who served as Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria Consolatrice al Tiburtino, visits Madrid in 1989. (Rafa Samano/Cover/Getty Images)
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Ratzinger stands in for Pope John Paul II during the Easter Vigil service in St. Peter's Basilica in March 2005. (Franco Origlia/Getty Images)
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Newly elected pope, Benedict XVI gestures to the crowd in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City on April 19, 2005. (Arturo Mari/Pool/Getty Images)
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Benedict meets Prince Albert II of Monaco in the pope's private library in Vatican City in December 2005. (Gianni Giansanti/Vatican Pool/Getty Images)
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Pope Benedict XVI meets the then Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, at the Vatican, on January 13, 2007. (ARTURO MARI/OSSERVATORE ROMANO/AFP via Getty Images)
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Benedict waves from under an umbrella as he arrives to address his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in October 2007. (VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Benedict speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in April 2008. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Benedict celebrates a mass at the end of a synod of Catholic bishops in October 2008 in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.
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Benedict XVI attends a screening of a film about his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, October 16, 2008, in Vatican City during celebrations for the 30th anniversary of John Paul II's election as pontiff.
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Benedict kneels as he prays in front of the tomb of Pope John XXIII in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican October 28, 2008, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of John's election to the papacy.
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Benedict speaks to bishops in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican after his weekly general address in November 2009. (ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Benedict XVI blesses pilgrims as he arrives in St. Peter's Square in his popemobile in March 2010 to meet with young people from Rome and the Lazio region in preparation for World Youth Day.
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The pope waves from his popemobile in St. Peter's Square in March 2010. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Benedict prays on Good Friday in April 2010 in the Roman Colosseum.
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Benedict prepares to celebrate a mass for 70,000 people in September 2011 in Berlin.
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Benedict waves to the crowd gathered at the Colosseum in Rome during the Way of the Cross procession on Good Friday in April 2012. (Franco Origlia/Getty Images)
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A gust of wind hits Benedict's neck in his face in September 2012 during his weekly speech in St. Peter's Square.
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Benedict greets the faithful as he arrives in St. Peter's Square for his weekly address in October 2012. (VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Benedict clicks on a tablet to send his first tweet from his @pontifex account at the Vatican in December 2012. (VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Benedict, accompanied by Grand Master Matthew Festing of the Sovereign and Military Order of Malta, right, shakes hands with a woman after mass in St. Peter's Basilica to mark the 900th anniversary of the Order of Knights of Malta on February 9, 2013 at the Vatican.
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Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful for the last time as head of the Catholic Church from the window of Castel Gandolfo where he began his retreat February 28, 2013 in Rome, Italy.
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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is greeted by Pope Francis after attending the Consistory at St. Peter's Basilica February 22, 2014 in Vatican City, Vatican.
Nineteen new cardinals were named in a Vatican ceremony.
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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at the airport in Munich, Germany, in June 2020. (Credit: SVEN HOPPE/POOL/AFP/Getty Images)
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