Francisco visited Benedict XVI a few hours after his 92nd birthday | Chronic

The dad Francisco visited the distinguished pontiff on Monday Benedict XVI, his predecessor who resigned from the pontificate in February 2013 and who will turn 92 tomorrow.

"At the beginning of the afternoon, Pope Francis addressed the Mater Ecclesiae monastery to greet Benedict XVI on the occasion of Easter"said the pope's spokesman Alessandro Gisotti through a statement.

"This meeting also allowed the Holy Father to express with special affection his greeting to the eminent Pope, who will turn 92 tomorrow."Gisotti added.

Ratzinger, born in the German city of Marktl in 1927, had been elected Pope number 265 of the Church in 2005 and had resigned on February 28, 2013, giving rise to the conclave he had elected Jorge Bergoglio as the first Latin American Pope on March 13th of this year.

Confused since his resignation at Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, in the Vatican Gardens, he had been the subject of controversy the publication of a letter bearing his signature in which he badyzed the crisis of abuse suffered by the Church.

In the 18-page missive that bears his name, although he is almost blind and endowed with constant personal badistants, the emeritus pope imputed the social changes that occurred after the so-called May of 68 (or French French) as being at the origin of the conflict. problems of pederasty at the ecclesial level.