Former Pope Benedict XVI has died
Back in 2013, he cited his declining physical and mental health in his decision to become the first pope since 1415 to give up the job as head of the Catholic church.
In his resignation letter, he said: "After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry." He and the late monarch shared a "great affinity”, according to the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.
"When Benedict decided to come to this country, he decided that the first thing he had to do was visit the Queen.“It was a measure of his self-understanding and the difficulties he was getting into physically as well that he said no, it needs somebody else to do this.”
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