Benedict old but in good health says Vatican spokesman
Pope Emeritus passing his first day of retirement
01 March, 15:11
(ANSA) - Vatican City, March 1 - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
is elderly but "in good health," Vatican spokesman Federico
Lombardi told the press on Friday, the first day of the
ex-pontiff's retirement."Over the last years we have seen him a little older, tired, stooped and sometimes with a cane, but that was for his safety and support," Lombardy said.
Benedict, the first pope to stand down since Gregory XII in 1415, will spend two months at Castel Gandolfo outside of Rome before moving into a monastery inside the Vatican.
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