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Articles: Pope's Home to Be Turned Into a Museum
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Posted by admin on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 01:54 PM
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Fed up of incessant tourist interest, the current owner of Pope Benedict XVI's birthplace in Bavaria might sell out to a German church group with grand plans for the hallowed place.


A property in demand for the Catholic faithful
<em class="caption">A property in demand for the Catholic faithful
 
The group, called the "Pope Benedict XVI's Birthplace Foundation," was started by Passau Bishop Wilhelm Schraml with funding from the industrialist family of the late Cardinal Joseph Frings.

Early in his career, the pope, formerly known as Joseph Ratzinger, worked as an advisor to Frings, who died in 1978.

 

Media reports said the foundation had bid up to 3.5 million euros ($4.1 million) for the house in the Bavarian village of Marktl am Inn, but realtors say it's more likely to be sold for around one million euros. The foundation plans to turn the house in which the pope was born on April 19, 1927 into a museum devoted to him.


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