Ratzinger joseph biography
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BIOGRAPHY
OF HIS HOLINESS, POPE
BENEDICT XVI
Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) was born on 16 April in Marktl am Inn, Germany.
His father, a police officer, came from a traditional family of farmers from Lower Bavaria.
Ratzinger joseph biography
He spent his adolescent years in Traunstein, a small town on the Austrian border.
It was in this context, which Pope Benedict XVI himself has described as "Mozartian", that he received his Christian, human and cultural formation.
Second World War
Joseph's days of youth were far from easy.
His faith and family upbringing prepared him for the harsh experience of the problems connected with the Nazi regime; he even remembers seeing his parish priest being beaten by Nazis before celebrating Holy Mass, and was well aware of the fiercely hostile atmosphere to the Catholic Church that existed in Germany at the time.
Towards the end of World War II, Joseph was enrolled in the auxiliary anti-aircraft service.
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