Benedict XVI will celebrate his 94th birthday privately, without any special festivities.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a celebration tinged with sadness, as it will be his first birthday without his brother, Georg, who passed away in July, and with whom he was very close.<\/p>\n
A few weeks ago, Benedict XVI\u2019s personal secretary shared how the Pope emeritus often jokes about his age.<\/p>\n
ARCH. GEORG G\u00c4NSWEIN In the past, the Pope emeritus received birthday greetings from his native Bavaria. But nothing is planned this year because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n Benedict XVI was born on April 16, 1927.<\/p>\n The third child of Joseph and Maria Ratzinger, he was baptized on the same day and given the name Joseph Aloisius.<\/p>\n Neither of his siblings is still alive.<\/p>\n That\u2019s why no immediate relatives will be able to join him for his birthday. But a phone call from Pope Francis can definitely be expected.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Javier Mart\u00ednez-Brocal<\/p>\n TR: CT<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 16, 2021. The Pope emeritus will celebrate his birthday in the monastery in the Vatican gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cACKe5tpp_Y","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcompleannobenedettoeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcompleannobenedettoint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Benedict XVI\u2019s Secretary
\n\u201cWe should keep that in mind. He tells me, \u2018I\u2019m nearly 94 years old, what do you want from me?\u2019 He didn\u2019t expect to live to this age. He\u2019s even told me he didn\u2019t imagine it would take so long to travel the distance from the end of his pontificate to meet St. Peter at the Gate (of Heaven.)\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n