
The house where Pope Benedict was born 85 years ago.

The baptismal font where he was baptised a few days after his birth
1) Joseph Ratzinger as schoolboy, 1932 in Aschau am Inn
2) Teaching Dogmatic and Fundamental Theology in the Seminary Freising, 1955
2) Ratzinger during a mountain Mass in the neighbourhood of Ruhpolding, summer 1952. Photo: kna
4) The young theologian Joseph Ratzinger was the consultant of Cardinal Frings during the Second Vatican Council
5) Cardinal Ratzinger left Munich for Rome in 1981
6) Cardinal Ratzinger in Vatican 1984
7) Habemus Papam! 19th. April, 2005