{"id":48127,"date":"2013-02-28T10:36:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T18:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=48127"},"modified":"2013-02-28T20:03:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T04:03:18","slug":"last-public-words-as-pope-i-am-simply-a-pilgrim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/last-public-words-as-pope-i-am-simply-a-pilgrim\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Public Words as Pope: <br>&#8220;I am Simply a Pilgrim&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130228-ben2.jpg?resize=400%2C300\" alt=\"20130228-ben2\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"drop\">Thank you from the heart, dear friends! I am glad to be with you, surrounded by the beauty of Creation. From eight this evening, I will no longer be Pontiff. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">I<\/span> am simply a pilgrim who begins the final stage of his pilgrimage on this earth, but I still wish to, with my heart, with my love, with my prayer, with my reflection, work for the good of the Church and for the common good of mankind. <\/p>\n<p>Buona notte!<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pope Benedict XVI, from the balcony at Castel Gandolfo)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/60786844\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you from the heart, dear friends! I am glad to be with you, surrounded by the beauty of Creation. From eight this evening, I will no longer be Pontiff. I am simply a pilgrim who begins the final stage of his pilgrimage on this earth, but I still wish to, with my heart, with my love, with my prayer, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-pope-benedict-xvi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-cwf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":71245,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/a-prayer-for-benedict\/","url_meta":{"origin":48127,"position":0},"title":"A Prayer for Benedict","author":"Thom","date":"06 June 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning I saw the news video below about a German journalist's visit to Pope Emeritus Benedict. 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He was born in the southern Italian town of Sant'Angelo a Scala to two Roman citizens, Rufinus and Justa. He was ordained by Pope Saint Marcellinus just before the persecutions of Diocletian got underway. 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