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In this handout picture released by the <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO00000058" title="Vatican City" href="/topic/intl/vatican-city-PLGEO00000058.topic">Vatican</a> Press Office, <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PERLL000204" title="Benedict XVI" href="/topic/religion-belief/christianity/roman-catholicism/benedict-xvi-PERLL000204.topic">Pope Benedict XVI</a> kneels before the coffin of his predecessor <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PERLL000106" title="John Paul II" href="/topic/religion-belief/christianity/roman-catholicism/john-paul-ii-PERLL000106.topic">Pope John Paul II</a> in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican following his beatification. Pope Benedict XVI hailed John Paul II's "strength of a titan" in defending Christianity against "a tide which appeared irreversible" in a homily in Saint Peter's Square. RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE â MANDATORY CREDIT âAFP PHOTO/OSSERVATORE ROMANO" (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images) ORG XMIT:

( Osservatore Romano/AFP/Getty Images / May 1, 2011 )

In this handout picture released by the Vatican Press Office, Pope Benedict XVI kneels before the coffin of his predecessor Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican following his beatification. Pope Benedict XVI hailed John Paul II's "strength of a titan" in defending Christianity against "a tide which appeared irreversible" in a homily in Saint Peter's Square. RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE â MANDATORY CREDIT âAFP PHOTO/OSSERVATORE ROMANO" (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images) ORG XMIT:

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