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Pope Benedict death: Italy's President Matarella, PM Meloni see pope emeritus at lying-in-state

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Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President Sergio Matarella joined crowds of mourners in Saint Peter's Basilica on Monday, as they paid their respects to former Pope Benedict XVI.

The prime minister and president attended the lying-in-state separately. Both spent a few minutes sitting in silence by the body before greeting and shaking hands with other mourners on their way out.

A steady stream of tens of thousands of people filed into St. Peter's Basilica to pay their respects to former Pope Benedict XVI at the start of three days of lying in state ahead of his funeral.

Benedict died on Dec. 31 at the age of 95 in the secluded Vatican monastery where he had lived since his shock resignation in 2013.

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