{"id":82847,"date":"2013-03-23T21:36:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T17:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mospat.ru\/?p=82847"},"modified":"2013-03-26T15:32:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T11:32:02","slug":"dar-svyatejjshego-patriarkha-kirilla-peredan-pochetnomu-pape-benediktu-xvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2013\/03\/23\/news82847\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill is handed over to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-82847 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'>\n\t\t<div class='carousel-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t<div id='carousel-2' class='gallery-carousel'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/576657_519221771454345_1175266068_n.jpg\" id=\"slide_item_200\" class=\"slide fancybox\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/timthumb.php?src=https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/576657_519221771454345_1175266068_n.jpg&w=632&h=380&q=95\" width=\"632\" height=\"380\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/41.jpg\" id=\"slide_item_201\" class=\"slide fancybox\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/timthumb.php?src=https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/41.jpg&w=632&h=380&q=95\" width=\"632\" height=\"380\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class='thumbs-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t<div id='thumbs-2' class='gallery-thumbs'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#slide_item_200\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/timthumb.php?src=https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/576657_519221771454345_1175266068_n.jpg&w=150&h=100&q=95\"><\/a><a href=\"#slide_item_201\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/timthumb.php?src=https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/41.jpg&w=150&h=100&q=95\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<a id='prev-2' class='gallery-thumbs-prev' href='#'><i class='icon-angle-circled-left'><\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<a id='next-2' class='gallery-thumbs-next' href='#'><i class='icon-angle-circled-right'><\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div><br \/>\nOn 23 March 2013, Pope Francis of Rome met with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in Castel Gandolfo, papal summer residence. It was for the first time that after his election and enthronement the Pope of Rome visited his retired predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>After a short prayer, Pope Francis handed over to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI an icon of the Mother of God, called \u2018Look Down with Favour on My Lowliness\u2019, which was presented to him in the end of private audience on March 20 by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, on behalf of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. Metropolitan Hilarion said, \u201cthe first steps of Your Holiness after the election were marked by lowliness and humility.\u201d Pope Francis replied that he lacked humility and asked for prayers to the Lord to grant it to him.<\/p>\n<p>While giving Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI the icon presented by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis said: I was told that this icon is called \u2018Mother of God of Humility\u2019 and I dare say that I thought of you so humble in your pontificate. \u201cThank you, such a gift!\u2019 replied Pope Emeritus while taking the icon.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 23 March 2013, Pope Francis of Rome met with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in Castel Gandolfo, papal summer residence. It was for the first time that after his election and enthronement the Pope of Rome visited his retired predecessor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[98,10,1,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}