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VATICAN CITY (CNS) The consecrated women who cared for Pope Benedict XVI in his retirement gently stroked his hands before his body was carried on a red-covered stretcher to a van for its last journey to St. Peter s Basilica. The women, members of Memores Domini, along with Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the late pope s personal secretary, and Dr. Patrizio Polisca, Pope Benedict s physician, gathered around the body to pray the Lord s Prayer and the Hail Mary in the chapel of the Mater Ecclesia

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