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Castel Gandolfo, Italy - 21 February 2013: The doorman of the Papal Palace open the door on Freedom Square (Piazza della Libertà) in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on February 21 2013.
On 11 February 2013, Pope Benedict XVI informed the cardinals gathered in Consistory that he had decided to resign the papacy, effective 28 February 2013. When he leaves the papacy at the end of the month, Benedict will retire to his summer home in Castel Gandolfo, in the hills outside Rome, before moving to the Mater Ecclesiae convent, a plain, four-story structure built 21 years ago to serve as an international place “for contemplative life within the walls of Vatican City,” as it is described on a Vatican Web site.
Gianni Cipriano for The New York TimesCastel Gandolfo, Italy - 21 February 2013: in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on February 21 2013.
On 11 February 2013, Pope Benedict XVI informed the cardinals gathered in Consistory that he had decided to resign the papacy, effective 28 February 2013. When he leaves the papacy at the end of the month, Benedict will retire to his summer home in Castel Gandolfo, in the hills outside Rome, before moving to the Mater Ecclesiae convent, a plain, four-story structure built 21 years ago to serve as an international place “for contemplative life within the walls of Vatican City,” as it is described on a Vatican Web site.
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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