Pope Visits Bavaria Home

World | September 9, 2006, Saturday // 00:00

Pope Benedict XVI has arrived to his homeland, Bavaria, southern Germany, for a six-day visit. He landed in Munich, where he is expected to hold Sunday an open-air mass for an expected 250,000 people - one of three planned masses during his tour. He is also due to visit the village of his birth, Marktl-am-Inn, and meet his brother, Georg, a retired priest. This is the Pope's second visit to Germany. Before his visit, Pope Benedict told German TV: "I want to see again the places and the people I grew up with and which shaped me and formed my life, and to thank those people."

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