Pope's birthday falls on Easter
Special Birthday For Pope BenedictCBS News
VATICAN CITY, April 10, 2006
(CBS/AP) For Pope Benedict XVI, this Holy Week is unlike all others – as this is the first time he has gone through this most solemn season on the liturgical calendar as the earthly leader of the world's Roman Catholics.
His first Easter as pontiff also happens to be his birthday.
The pope, the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, will be 79.
Benedict blessed palm fronds and olive branches Sunday in the Vatican, opening a ritual-filled Holy Week that pilgrims in Jerusalem celebrated in a procession retracing Jesus' triumphant return to the holy city some 2,000 years ago.
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