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Mwili wa Papa Mstaafu Benedict wa 16, na kichwa chake kikiwa juu ya mito ya rangi nyekundu, umelazwa katika Kanisa Kuu la Mtakatifu Petro huku maelfu ya watu wakiwasilisha maombi ya kutoa heshima za mwisho kwa Papa huyo ambaye aliishangaza dunia kwa kustaafu.
Kulipopambazuka, Walinzi 10 wa Papa wakiwa glavu nyeupe - wasaidizi wa papa na ndugu wa karibu wa Papa walibeba mwili juu ya machela ya mbao iliyofunikwa kwa kitambaa na kuuingiza Kanisani.
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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI ’s body, his head resting on a pair of crimson pillows, lay in state in St. Peter’s Basilica on Monday as thousands of people filed by to pay tribute to the pontiff who shocked the world by retiring a decade ago.
As daylight broke, 10 white-gloved Papal Gentlemen — lay assistants to pontiffs and papal households — carried the body on a cloth-covered wooden stretcher after its arrival at the basilica to its resting place in front of the main altar under Bernini’s towering bronze canopy.
A Swiss Guard had saluted as the body was brought in via a side door after Benedict’s remains, placed in a van, were transferred from the chapel of the monastery grounds where the increasingly frail, 95-year-old former pontiff had passed away on Saturday morning.
His longtime secretary, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, and a handful of consecrated laywomen who served in Benedict’s household, followed the van by foot in a silent procession toward the basilica. Some of the women stretched out a hand to touch the body with respect.
Before the rank-and-file faithful were allowed into the basilica, prayers were intoned and a small cloud of incense was released near the body, its hands clasped on its chest.
AP