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Berlin's Sacred Heart Church rings its bells in honour of the funeral of former pope Benedict XVI, who was Germany's first pope in 1,000 years. IMAGES
Ex-pope Benedict XVI's coffin is carried into St Peter's Basilica, following a funeral at the Vatican led by Pope Francis and attended by tens of thousands of mourners. The remains of the German Joseph Ratzinger, who was the first pontiff to retire since the Middle Ages, will be buried in the tomb under the Basilica which previously held the body of John Paul II. IMAGES
Images of candles placed in front of the birth house of former pope Benedict XVI in the bavarian town of Marktl, as his funeral starts in the Vatican City. IMAGES
Pope Francis leads ex-pope Benedict XVI's funeral mass, as a choir in St Peter's Square sings prayers for the first pontiff to have resigned since the Middle Ages. Francis prays in front of Benedict's plain, cypress wood coffin, which lies at the head of the Vatican square packed with foreign dignitaries, cardinals, bishops, priests and believers from around the world. IMAGES
The coffin of ex-Pope Benedict XVI arrives in St. Peter’s Square ahead of his funeral. Almost a decade after he became the first pontiff in six centuries to resign, his successor Pope Francis will lead a requiem mass in the vast St. Peter's Square before his body is laid ro rest in the papal tombs beneath St Peter's Basilica. IMAGES
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