Pope Francis prayed for his predecessor's passage to heaven as he presided over a special New Year's Day Mass in St Peter's Basilica on Sunday, a day after Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died in retirement at the Vatican. Benedict, the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role, died in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican at 9.34am on Saturday.Francis looked weary and sat with his head bowed as Mass began on the first day of the year, having arrived to St Peter's Basilica in a wheelchair.
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