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		Pope Benedict XVI the Vesper ceremony in the St. Peter's basilica at Vatican February 2, 2010
		Pope Benedict XVI during a Vespers prayer inside the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, in Rome, Jan. 25, 2010.
		Pope Benedict XVI during the traditional speech to the Holy See's diplomatic corps, at the Vatican January 11, 2010
		Pope Benedict XVI leads thetraditional Epiphany mass in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican January 6, 2010
		Pope Benedict XVI prays in front of the Nativity in St. Peter's Square after celebrating the Vespers and Te Deum prayer in St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican December. 31, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI leads theduring the Christmas Midnight Mass in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican December. 25, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates vespers in St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican December 17, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI during meeting: Chilean President Michelle Bachelet Jeria and Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchnerat. Suriname president Runaldo Ronald Venetiaan. November 20,28, 2009 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Albania's Prime Minister Sali Berisha. 3,12 December 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI prays during the traditional Immaculate Conception celebration prayer in Rome's Piazza di Spagna, Italy December 8, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI during meeting Serbia's President Boris Tadic Hungary's Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai November 14, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI during a meeting Croatian president Stjepan Mesic private audience at the Vatican November 12, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI during the mass in memory of the Cardinals and Bishops who died during the year on November 5, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI during a solemn celebration for the conclusion of the Second Synod for Africa at Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, October 25, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. October 21, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI, during a meeting: Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko Prince Albert of Monaco October 16, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. October 14, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI during a canonization ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican October 11, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. October 7, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI leads a special mass to open a month-long synod of African bishops on at Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. October 4, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI ordination ceremony of five new bishops at St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican September 12, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI In his first public appearance since having the cast removed from his broken right wrist, Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing during the Angelus prayer from his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, on the outskirts of Rome, Sunday, August 23, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI.audience for the athletes of the FINA Swimming World Championships in Castello Gandolfo near Rome, Italy, August 01, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI he leaves from his summer retreat at Les Combes, in the Val d'Aosta region of northern Italy July 29, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI greets arrives to celebrate the Angelus prayer in Les Combes d'Introd, near Aosta, northern Italy, Sunday, July 26, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI arrives for a Vesper prayer at the Aosta's cathedral, northern Italy, July 24, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI delivers his Angelus prayer in Romano Canavese, northern Italy. The pope blessed a few hundred faithful Sunday with his right arm in a cast during his first public appearance since undergoing surgery to set a wrist he fractured in a fall. July 19, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI is seen wearing a cast on his right arm as he goes for a walk in Les Combes, near Aosta, northern Italy, Saturday, Benedict XVI spent an easy night after breaking his wrist in his Alpine vacation chalet and is learning to cope with the cast on his right arm, July 18, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI arrives, in Introd, Les Combes, near Aosta, northern Italy, Monday, The pontiff will spend a period of rest in the Aosta Valley until July 29, July 13, 2009.
		Benedict XVI, during a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama greets Pope in the pontiff's private library at the Vatican July 10, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI Vespri's ceremony at the St. Paolo's Basilica in Rome June 28, 2009. Pope Benedict XVI leads a solemn mass at St Peter's basilica to celebrate the feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul June 29, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI during a Corpus Domini procession between the basilicas San Giovanni in Laterano and Santa Maria Maggiore on in Rome June 11, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. June. 10, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the Pentecost Sunday mass at St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. May 31, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI during a meeting with President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus, at the Vatican, May 30, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI pilgrimage to Monte Cassino, central Italy. May. 24, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. May. 20, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Vatican Swiss Guards during a celebration of the 1527 Sack of Rome, at the Vatican, May 6, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. April. 29, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI during a ceremony in which he ordained new priests, in St. Peter Basilica at the Vatican, May 3, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. April. 22, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. April. 15, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI, Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, during the Sunday Easter mass 'Urbi et Orbi' (to the city and the world) benediction in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican April 12, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Holy Friday Passion of the Lord mass in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican April 10, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI holds the wooden cross during the Via Crucis torchlight procession on Good Friday in front of the Colosseum in Rome, Friday, April 10, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI during the Cena Domini mass at Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome April 9, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. April. 8, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrating an open-air Palm Sunday mass in St. Peter's square at the Vatican April 5, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI mass to the fourth anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican April 2, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. April. 1, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a mass at the Holy face of Jesus parish church in Rome, March 29, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI and Malta President Edward Fenech-Adami on the on the occasion of their private audience at the Vatican March 14, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. March 11, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Feb. 18, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI during a general audience he held in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Feb. 11, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI during a Vespers prayer inside the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, in Rome, Jan. 25, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI Macedonia's President Branko Crvenkovski, during a private audience in the pontiff's studio at the Vatican. Jan. 23, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI during the traditional speech to the Holy See's diplomatic corps, at the Vatican January 8, 2009.
		Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leaves after celebrating a mass to mark the World Day of Peace in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican January 1, 2009
		Pope Benedict XVI during the celebration of the First Vespers and Te Deum prayers in Saint Peter's basilica at the Vatican Visiting the nativity scene at the end of the Te Deum prayer in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, December 31, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful during the "Urbi et Orbi" (to the City and to the World) message in St. Peter's square at the Vatican. December 25, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI leads theduring the Christmas Midnight Mass in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican December. 25, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI during the traditional Immaculate Conception celebration prayer in Spain's central square in Rome December 8, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI and Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaska meet during a private audience at the Vatican, Dec. 1, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI leads a mass during a pastoral visit at the Basilica of San Lorenzo, in Rome, Nov. 30, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Nov. 5, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI during a Mass for cardinals and bishops deceased over the year, inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican Nov. 3, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI during a mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on the occasion of the conclusion of the XII bishops' synod, Oct. 26, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates an open-air canonization ceremony of Sister Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, Gaetano Errico, Sister Maria Bernarda and Narcisa de Jesus Martillo Moran in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Oct. 12, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a mass to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Pope Pius XII, in St.Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Oct. 9, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a Mass in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, to open a worldwide meeting of bishops on the relevance of the Bible for contemporary Catholics. Oct. 5, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI, during a ceremony in Albano's cathedral, on the outskirt of Rome, to bless a new altar. Sept. 21, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI during his Angelus prayer in Bressanone, Aug. 10, 2008 Pope Benedict XVI on before leaving Bressanone where he spent his annual holidays on Aug 11, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI during a ceremony where he received the honorary citizenship of Bressanone, in this Northern Italian mountain resort, Aug. 9, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI, during the meeting with the priests in the dome of Bressanone in the Duomo church in Bressanone, where he is vacationing in northern Italy, Aug. 6, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI arrives to pay a visit to the home of Josef Freinademetz a 19th century saint who died as a missionary in China, and to pray in the church devoted to him, in Oies, Alta Badia, Italy, Aug. 5, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI during his Angelus prayer in Bressanone, northern Italy, Aug. 03, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI waves at the crowd as he arrives in Bressanone, near Bolzano, Italy . The Pontiff begun his Alpine vacation in this mountain resort of the Dolomites where he will remain until August 11. July 28, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI, and the leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, Patriarch Bartholomew I, celebrate a ceremony in memory of St. Paul, Holy Mass and imposition of the Pallium on Metropolitan Archbishops June 29, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI, and the leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, Patriarch Bartholomew I, celebrate a ceremony in memory of St. Paul, at St. Paul's Basilica Outside the Walls, in Rome, June 28, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI with Portugal President Anibal Cavaco Silva during a meeting at his private library, in Vatican, June 28, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI during an open-air Mass in the southeastern Italian port city of Brindisi, is welcome by local bishops as he arrives to Brindisi's Cathedral June 15, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a mass at Santa Maria di Leuca's sanctuary, southern Italy, June 14, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI meets Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during a visit in his private library in the Vatican June 6, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI Corpus Domini procession between the basilicas San Giovanni in Laterano and Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome May 22, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI leads Pentecost Mass in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. May 11, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI arrives at the end of the mass celebrated by Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco of St. Peter's square at the Vatican, The pontiff greeted and blessed members of the 'Azione Cattolica' (Italian Catholic Action) May 4, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a rosary prayer at Saint Mary Major Basilica in Rome May 3, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI during a ceremony in which he ordained 29 new priests, in St. Peter Basilica at the Vatican, April 27, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI during a mass at Saint Bartolomew Basilica on the Tiberina Island in Rome April 7, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates an Easter Vigil mass in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican March 22, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Holy Friday Passion of the Lord mass in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican March 21, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI during the Holy Thursday rite of the washing feet, in St. John in Lateran Basilica in Rome March 20, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI during an open-air Palm Sunday mass in St. Peter's square at the Vatican March 16, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI leaves a confessional in the St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, March 13, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI pastoral visit to a youth center at the Church of San Lorenzo in Piscibus, in Rome The Angelus prayer in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, March 9, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the Ash Wednesday at the Basilica of St Sabina in Rome February 6, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI arrives at the end of the mass of "Day of the consecrated life" celebrated by Cardinal Franc Rode in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican February 2, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI leads a Vesper prayer at Saint Paul Basilica in Rome January 25, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI with Togo President Faure Gnassingbe'during an audience at the Vatican January 19, 2008.
		Pope Benedict XVI greets Rome mayor and Democratic Party leader Walter Veltroni during a private meeting at the Clementine VI Hall at the Vatican January 10, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leaves after celebrating a mass to mark the World Day of Peace in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican January 1, 2008
		Pope Benedict XVI during the celebration of the First Vespers and Te Deum prayers in Saint Peter's basilica at the Vatican Visiting the nativity scene at the end of the Te Deum prayer in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, December 31, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI blesses his faithful as he leads his Urbi et Orbi message (to the city and the world) from the central balcony of Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican December. 25, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI leads the Midnight Mass in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican December. 25, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI consecrates the altar as he celebrates a mass during his visit to the church of St. Mary of the rosary in Rome. December. 16, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI during the traditional Immaculate Conception celebration prayer in Spain's central square in Rome December 8, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI during a visit at a SMOM Sovereign Military Order of Malta hospital "San Giovanni Battista" in Rome December 2, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates mass during a Vespers ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican December 1, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI during the Consistory ceremony in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican November 25, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI during the Consistory ceremony in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican November 24, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Audience with Italy's religious brotherhoods in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican November 7/10, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a mass to commemorate cardinals who died during the year 2007 the Altar of the Chair by Bernini, in St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican November 5, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI with Paraguay's President Nicanor Duarte Frutos (L) during a meeting at the Vatican October 29, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI right, attend a concert by the Symphonic Orchestra Bayerischer Rundfunk and the Bamberger Symphoniker, at the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. October 27, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI arrives at the end of the mass celebrated by Cardinal Grocholewski Zenon for the beginning of the academic year of ecclesiastic universities at the Vatican. October 25, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful during a mass in Plebiscito square in Naples October 21, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican October 3, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI waves as celebrates a bishops ordination mass in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican September 29, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a mass in Velletri, south of Rome September 23, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI Austrian President Heinz Fischer Vienna's historic Hofburg Palace during the Pontiff's visit to the Stift Heiligenkreuz abbey September 7/9, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leaves a holy mass in St. Stephens Cathedral, in Vienna. During the Angelus prayer in Vienna's St. Stephen's Square September 9, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a holy mass in Mariazell, during vesper prayers inside the Basilica of Mariazell, Austria. September 8, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI during a liturgical opening ceremony at the 'Am Hof' square in Vienna, Austria, September 7, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI during a meeting with youths in Loreto, central Italy, September 1/2, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI looks at the 'Centro Cadore' lake in Domegge, Lorenzago di Cadore, in Italy's Dolomite mountains. July 23, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful during the traditional Angelus prayer in Lorenzago di Cadore,in Italy's Dolomite mountains. July 22, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI visits the Santa Orsola church in Vigo di Cadore. Visit to " Santa Giustina Martire" in Auronzo. Pope Benedict XVI leaves the mountain in the Dolomite town of Lorenzago di Cadore. July 24./25./27. 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful during the traditional Angelus prayer in the 19th century Mirabello castle in Lorenzago di Cadore, near Belluno, Italy, July 15, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI arrive in Lorenzago di Cadore, near Belluno, Italy, The Pontiff begun his Alpine vacation in the mountain resort of the Dolomites where he will remain until July 27. July 9, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI, welcomes Grand Master of the Order of Knights of Malta Prince Fra Andrew Bertie for their private audience at the pontiff's private library in the Vatican June 22, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI, 2nd left, presides over the funeral Mass for late Cardinal Angelo Felici in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, June 19, 2007.
		Pope Benedict during a meeting with youths at the Santa Maria Degli Angeli Basilica, during his pastoral visit in Assisi June 17, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI during a pastoral visit in Assisi, the city of Saint Francisco,central, Italy, June 17, 2007.
		Pope Benedict XVI prays during a procession for the solemnity of Corpus Christi in St. John Lateran Square in Rome. June. 8. 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican May. 30, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI wears a 'saturno hat', inspired by the ringed planet Saturn, to shield himself from the sun during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. May. 23, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI ordained 22 men in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican April 29, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI during a mass in Pavia, Pope Benedict XVI prays the remains of St Augustine during a visit to the northern Italy city of Pavia April 22, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a mass in Vigevano, northern Italy,Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a mass in Vigevano, northern Italy.The pontiff is in Vigevano on the first of a two-day visit during which he will also visit the nearby town of Pavia. April 21, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI attends a special concert performed by Germany's Stuttgart Radiophonic orchestra in honour of his 80th birthday at Paul VI hall at the Vatican April 16, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday,. Benedict XVI celebrated his 80th birthday a day early with a Mass in his honor Sunday on the flower-bedecked steps of St. Peter's Square, April 15, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI during the Sunday Easter mass 'Urbi et Orbi' (to the city and the world) benediction in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican April 8, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI holds a cross while leading the traditional Via Crucis procession at the Colosseum in Rome April 6, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI attends Passion of the Christ service in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican April 6, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass in memory of the late Pope John Paul II on the second anniversary of his death, at St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 2, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI during an open-air Palm Sunday Mass celebrated in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 1, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI waves at the end of the celebration of the penance sacrament with the youth of the Rome's diocese, in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican March 29, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI during general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 14, 21, 28, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a mass during his visit to the church of 'Santa Felicita e figli martiri' (St. Felicita and Martyrs Sons) on the outskirts of Rome March 25, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI St. Peter's square at the Vatican during a meeting with young people of the Italian 'Comunione e Liberazione' organization. March 24, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI says Rosary in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican while attending a general audience granted to students of the European Universities. March 10, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI statue of St. Mary of Lourdes at the end of a Mass for the 'World Day of the Sick' in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. February 11, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI "feast of candles" in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican. February 2, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI the funeral of Card. Antonio María Javierre Ortas, St. Peter's Basilica at Vatican City February 2, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI in Rome's St. Paul Outside the Walls Basilica, during a prayer service to mark the end of prayer week for Christian Unity. January 25, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI general audience held in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, January 17, 2007
		Pope Benedict XVI says a mass on the Feast of the Epiphany in St. Peter's Basilica at Vatican City January 6, 2007
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