The National Catholic Register website reports today (April 15, 2012) that Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate his 85th birthday tomorrow with a number of visitors -- including his elder brother and the president of his native Bavaria.
His birthday will be "a normal working day, he never interrupts his daily routine, but it will be a very Bavarian day," said Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, Pope Benedict's private secretary.
Pope Benedict -- who is now the sixth-oldest pontiff in history -- returned to the Vatican on April 13, after five days of rest at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo.
His few days of retreat followed a grueling two weeks that included his six-day apostolic voyage to Mexico and Cuba and the Church's Easter celebrations in Rome.
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