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On Thursday, January 5, 2022, the final funeral rites for Pope Benedict XVI was held at St. Peters Square in the Vatican. The ceremony followed three days of public viewing of the late pope’s body laid in state. Right before his wooden coffin was closed, the late pope’s personal secretary, …

  Day one of the three-day display of the body of the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI commenced on Monday, January 2, 2022. The body of the former leader of the Catholic Church was laid in state in the Vatican with some 40,000 people filing past in the first five …